Sarkozy: ‘The tragedy of Africa is that the African has never really entered into history … They have never really launched themselves into the future … The African peasant, who for thousands of years has lived according to the seasons, whose life ideal was to be in harmony with nature, only knew the eternal renewal [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Speed-dating
Posted in Nicolas Sarkozy on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Send in the UN instead
Posted in peacekeeping, punditrocacy on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stephanie Hansen, news editor of the Council on Foreign Relations’ website on the African Union’s peacekeeping capacity (especially in Sudan). * The illustration is by Kadir van Lohuizen from the exhibition ‘Darfur: 20 Years of War and Genocide in Sudan‘ currently showing through September 30 at the PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, NY.
Good ideas
Posted in globalization, humanitarianism, Missionaries on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Planting trees in Uganda to offset greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe seemed like a good idea – until farmers were evicted from their land to make room for a forest.” Fortune magazine, of all publications, reports. * The picture can be seen, as part of a series, illustrating the article at CNN.com.
Mumblecore
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Africa in the Bronx
Posted in Human Zoo on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Africa in the Bronx, originally uploaded by Sean Jacobs. The Bronx Zoo (which I visited with my daughter and a friend’s one year old son; the adults trekked along to provide the necessary supervision [...]
Africa on your street
Posted in Le Petit Senegal on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Africa in Brooklyn, originally uploaded by Sean Jacobs. Taken on a Sunday in a heavily African immigrant section (that’s changing though as a result of rapid gentrification) of Fulton Street in the Clinton Hill neighboorhood that borders Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
Ease di Tension
Posted in Music on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thabo Mbeki’s woes
Posted in South Africa on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For the last couple of days the New York Times went heavy on the woes of South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki who fired his hard-working deputy minister of health (she’s the one who publicly repudiated Mbeki and his health minister for their unscientific views on HIV-AIDS and ineffective AIDS policies). The paper’s Johannesburg correspondent Michael [...]
UNICEF Does Blackface
Posted in humanitarianism on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
UNICEF, riding the wave of new humanitarianism, wanted German youth to identify with conditions of young Africans. What the advertising firm they hired, Jung von Matt/Alster,came up with, probably says a lot about what is still acceptable among media elites in that country.Following protests, UNICEF came up with a lame explanation. * Spotted at Can’t [...]
Africans in New York
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Q Train, 34th Street, originally uploaded by Sean Jacobs. My brother, David (taking a break from work in Cape Town, South Africa), is visiting New York. He has kept me busy for the last [...]
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