So recently on a Saturday, we (me, wife and 2-year old daughter) were passing through Union Square where everyone’s favorite brass band plays near the 4-6 train tracks (when they’re not touring). We’re in a hurry but my daughter wants to stop and hear them play. And I want to snap some quick pictures. ‘No,’ [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The day I met Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Posted in Music, New York City, Not just about Africa, Not on the Radio, photography, tagged brass, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Music, New York City, New York Times, Not on the Radio, photography on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The next rich guy mayor of New York City is a fabulist
Posted in New York City, Not just about Africa, politics, tagged fabulist, John Catsimatidis, Mayoral Race, New York City on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Village Voice eats up bored billionaire supermarket chain guy John Catsimatidis‘ tales about kidnappings and weird business deals in the West African nation of Mali. All to bolster his mystique to be mayor of New York City. I suppose that’s a qualification for leading this city. The full tall tale here.
‘South Africa’s Ugly Present’
Posted in politics, Sean Jacobs, South Africa, tagged racism, racist incidents, South Africa, universities, white population on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The op-ed I wrote for the Guardian (UK) newspaper ‘s Comment is Free site on the wider context of the racist incident at the University of the Free State (captured on video), is now up at that paper’s website. To read the piece and the responses (including some off-color ones), go here. Blogger at Rootless [...]
The admirable politics of William F Buckley Jr.
Posted in Books, journalism, Not just about Africa, politics, South Africa, tagged National Review, South Africa, United States and Africa, William F Buckley on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not to speak ill of the death, but before the whitewash on William F Buckley (now that he passed) begins (like it did with Ronald Reagan), it would be good to remind ourselves of the former National Review editor’s admirable politics on racial and other dictatorships, in this case Apartheid South Africa. Jacob Heilbrunn reported [...]
Shameless Self-promotion #2
Posted in New York City, politics, Sean Jacobs, tagged Afripod, Blogs and Blogging, iTunes, Sean Jacobs, shameless self-promotion on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I did an interview with the gents over at Afripod a few weeks ago at Michigan State University in East Lansing (historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb — the “2 Peters”). The whole thing is over here. Photo Credit.
Oops, The New York Times did it again
Posted in journalism, Nigeria, Not only about Africa, politics, Uncategorized, tagged elections, journalism, New York Times and Africa, News coverage of African topics, Nigeria, opportunistic Britney Spears reference, reporting on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Part of the introduction of a story about a pending ruling by an electoral tribunal in Nigeria tomorrow about its flawed 2007 election: Just as Kenya’s electoral crisis eases, a battle is brewing over a deeply flawed and highly contested election in another fractious, ethnically and religiously divided African nation, Nigeria. But this time the [...]
Tsotsi did not win an Oscar this year
Posted in film, tagged Academy Awards, film, Hollywood, Oscars, Tsotsi on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
No African films this year. Next time. Insha’Allah.Talking about Tsotsi: I am still trying to figure out how it won an Oscar in the first place. For one, its implausible plots twists should have been enough to disqualify it. Actually I know: Like the American film, Crash, it played straight to Hollywood’s half-baked remedies for [...]
BBC on South Africa and Zimbabwe
Posted in documentary films, film, politics, South Africa, tagged BBC, immigration, refugees, South Africa, xenophobia, Zimbabwe on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yet another BBC program on South Africa and Zimbabwean refugees. In the words of a colleague: One cliché after another including those dubious self-policing [South Africans] farmers who deport Zimbabweans back. If you still feel compelled to be disappointed by this “journalism,” see for yourself here (you have to hurry up though as the BBC [...]
Sunday Brunch … with George W Bush
Posted in Not just about Africa, photography, politics, tagged George Bush, George Bush in Africa on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
George W Bush in Liberia during his just completed visit to six African countries. No comment. I wonder what he was thinking though?
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