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In 1906 the Bronx Zoo brought a Congolese Pygmy named Ota Benga over from Africa to exhibit at the zoo and housed him in the Zoo’s ‘Monkey House.’ Two years ago, the New York Times in a long report recalled the event and criticized the paper’s own coverage then. As the New York Times reported [...]

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It’s like when someone you know finally signs up for a Facebook profile. Here. (They compete for my loyalty with Abdullah Ibrahim).

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‘Flow‘ is a show of about 80 works by 20 different African artists currently showing at the Studio Museum of Harlem, including the work of Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko, France-based Mounir Fatmi, Johannesburg’s Nicholas Hlobo, and Berlin-based Mustafa Maluka. The Wall Street Journal‘s culture page gives its take. Here.

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A prominent businessman who has close ties to Zanu-PF but is hoping for change told the Financial Times there was only one chance for the MDC: “We must hope the old man [Mugabe] is so arrogant that he believes his propaganda that he is still loved. If so, he just may not have rigged this [...]

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Serious. Paris Hilton said this. Here. Buy her a map.  Tell that to the people who live in that region.

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David Scott, world editor (that’s basically everything but the United States) of the Christian Science Monitor on one of the paper’s reporters covering the Zimbabwean election: My Millionaire Kids: Who wants to be a millionaire? In Zimbabwe, it’s rather hard not to be. In a country where a loaf of bread costs 10 million Zimbabwean [...]

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Whether Robert Mugabe (who has governed Zimbabwe since independence in 1980) can rig this weekend’s Presidential elections in Zimbabwe is still not clear, but we sure he is deluded.Evidence of Mugabe’s oddness here [via Al Jazeera English, the only 'international' news network allowed to report the elections and whose 'reporter' Supa Mandiwanzira seems to channel Mugabe and [...]

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Patrice Motsepe, the new generation South African capitalist, is on the cover of Forbes’ ‘Richest People’ issue (he’s worth $2,4 billion; the richest man is the American investment guru Warren Buffett at $62 billion).Full story here. * BTW, the quote referenced in the my title is from a statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, currently South Africa’s [...]

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