Il Manifesto
Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.
Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.
Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.
Last week’s assaults on the tombs of saints, scholars and prominent ancestors in Timbuktu punctuated a long, leaden moment in Mali's crisis.
We British like nothing more than a nice inquiry. The exorbitant jail terms meted out to last year’s rioters (whether actual or merely theoretical) are commonly supposed to have been a great disappointment to us all, a sad sign of a milksop rights-obsessed “democracy” that no longer has the stomach to chasten its miscreants with anything approaching the […]
It’s not even news that women and children leads AIDS activism in places like Botswana, except when it’s scanted. So, here’s a primer.
Guest Post by Anonymous* If you follow current headlines, you may have noticed a seemingly new conflict arising in the Middle East. Recent migratory trends in Israel have led to new challenges beyond the decades long occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The tension surrounding the influx of African asylum seekers and refugees to Israel has […]
Can North Africans define their own futures, away from the inventions of old white men in think tanks in Washington DC?
The limitations of working in the online space, given the small percentages of people with online access (despite the expansion of mobile technology).
Journalists rarely ask the IMF chief technocrat to consider whether or not she gives any kind of a shit about the people who are getting screwed by her "austerity" agenda.
How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?
The coverage of Lesotho's 2012 elections don't move beyond superficialities and actually delve into the complexities of local politics.
The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.
Is Banda serious about repealing Malawi's anti-gay laws? Is she just cynical so as to secure donor cash? And, what about Malawian public opinion?
It's very hard to figure out what the soldiers who took power in a coup in Mali, have in store for the country. Or if they even have a plan.
The fantasies of Blackwater, the Michigan firm of mercenaries and as contractor to imperial powers. Also, how it employs Africa as a rhetorical device to get more business.
Starting on April 1, South Africa’s public TV channel SABC3 has been running a weekly series called “I am Woman.” Every week, the show tries to follow the arc of a woman’s journey, the ways in which she comes to understand herself and the world by creating herself as the world and the world as […]
Is it France's interests to reform its unequal, exploitative relationship with Africans?
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an internet café, then another saying Mbembe was trying to find an internet café with Skype, then another saying that he was trying to find an internet café with Skype in a part of the city where there wasn’t a power-cut.
What does all that mean for French-African politics? It’s hard to tell what will next emerge from that fetid swamp.
A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola's authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.