And, surprise its not about Zimbabwe’s people. Sadly, it is only about their struggles of the paper’s reporter (usually based in South Africa) who sneaked into the country and got arrested. What Robert Mugabe’s thug police did to reporter Barry Bearak is inexcusable and granted the Zimbabwe authorities “discourage” journalists (that’s to put it mildly), [...]
Archive for April, 2008
NY Times devotes 3 pages to Zimbabwe crisis …
Posted in journalism, Not just about Africa, politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, tagged arrests, journalists, New York Times, reporters, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out of Africa
Posted in Not just about Africa, television, You can't make this stuff up, tagged Kenya, Maasai, Masai, media, stereotypes on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a post on Western obsession with East Africa’s Masai for the Guardian’s Comment is Free site. See here.
Obama can always have Brooklyn Flea
Posted in New York City, Not just about Africa, politics, tagged Brooklyn Flea, Brownstoner, Fort Greene, Hillary Clinton, Pennsylvania Primary, Presidential Election, T-shirts on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Original picture here. (Official Flea Market website here.)
White stereotypes, black absenses
Posted in documentary films, film, Johannesburg, journalism, money, Not just about Africa, South Africa, television, You can't make this stuff up, tagged Africa, African Hunting Holiday, BBC, Louis Theroux, media, Paul Theroux, South Africa, television on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I asked my friend Herman Wasserman to unpack Louis Theroux’s (son of Paul) recent visit to South Africa as seen on the BBC: ‘… There he stood, poor Louis Theroux. Thin and civilised, black-rimmed spectacles and shirtsleeves, having to watch how an overweight Afrikaner, dressed in khaki, gets all excited about his daughter felling a [...]
Chimurenga comes to Brooklyn
Posted in film, literary culture, Music, New York City, Not just about Africa, tagged Afrofunk, Afropop, Brooklyn, Chimurenga, Felasophy, Fort Greene, literary magazines, magazines, New York City Parties, parties on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mandela is still a terrorist
Posted in Nelson Mandela, Not just about Africa, politics, South Africa, tagged Dick Cheney, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, terrorism, US Congress, War on Terror on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seriously. In terms of United States law. He needs ‘special permission’ when he travels stateside. That also counts for all former prisoners from the African National Congress. Not for the Cabinet ministers or members of the Apartheid regime’s security council or its death squads. I forgot that was a ‘democratic’ government. There are now finally [...]
How to find out what’s going on Zimbabwe?
Posted in politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, tagged Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe sources on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can’t trust the Zimbabwe Herald. Petina Gappah, a Zimbabwean blogger on the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ site listed a few trusted sources to get past the hearsay. Go here.
Mugabe’s ‘Musharaf option’
Posted in politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, tagged elections, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now that Mugabe has emerged from his self-imposed silence after losing the March Presidential elections, to change the subject again, and the feeling of inevitability of the last few weeks (I was giddy too, thinking this was the end for him) it is useful to be reminded by Guardian foreign editor Simon Tisdall’s warning right [...]
Afropolitans in Harlem
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Holland Cotter (in the New York Times) on the exhibit Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem till June 29: Afropolitanism is the modish tag for new work made by young African artists both in and outside Africa. What unites the artists is a shared view of Africa, less as a place than as a [...]
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