Not something to rejoice about, but two African players made the “Britain’s 25 richest young footballers” list: = 9. Didier Drogba (Chelsea), £13 million – Ivory Coast forward who is convinced that he deserves more than £90,000-a-week at Stamford Bridge. Earns another £20,000-a-week from endorsements and commercial deals. = 16. Michael Essien (Chelsea), £10 million [...]
Archive for July, 2008
The 25 richest young footballers
Posted in soccer, sports, tagged Didier Drogba, English Premier League, Leo Ferdinand, Michael Essien, Michael Owen, soccer, The 25 richest young footballers, The Beautiful Game, Wayne Rooney on July 31, 2008 | 47 Comments »
Is the English Premier League killing Nigerian football?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged African football, BBC World, Celestin Babayaro, English Premier League, Kanu, Nigeria, soccer, The Beautiful Game, World Cup 2010 on July 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Whenever we play at the same time as an Arsenal game, nobody shows up,” says Abdu Maikaba [coach of FC Abuja]. “If they can make it so we play on a day before or after Arsenal, that will be a start.” From BBC World.
Donna Karan and the ‘the jungles and deserts of Africa’
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, fashion, New York City media and Africa, New York Observer, Spencer Morgan, Urban Zen on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Reporter Spencer Morgan at The New York Observer has some fun with a quote from a Donna Karan flack that the designer is traipsing through “the African jungle” looking for inspiration for a new line of clothing “Urban Zen.” Serious. Calvin Klein is also in on the trip. So where are these deserts and jungles: [...]
Cape Town’s for sale
Posted in South Africa, tagged Cape Town, housing, real estate in Africa, South Africa, travel and destinations on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times wants its readers to get interested. Not in the townships of course. More here.
Kermit Washington doesn’t punch people anymore
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged sports, Rwanda, NBA, basketball, unsportsmanlike moments in sports, Rudy Tomjanovich, Project Contact Africa, humanitarianism on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In NBA basketball lore, Kermit Washington of the LA Lakers will be remembered only for the “punch.” During a game in the 1975 season he sucker punched the Houston Rockers All Star Rudy Tomjanovich (it was gruesome as you can see here). Tomjanovich was knocked unconscious. He needed facial reconstruction. Kermit then went underground for [...]
Doris Lessing still makes sense
Posted in Books, tagged arts and letters, Books, Doris Lessing, interviews, magazines, novelists on July 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Doris Lessing in the New York Times Magazine: Are you still practicing Sufism? I think the word is “studying” it, “learning” it. Isn’t it a strand of Islam, founded by Muhammad? I know people think this, because they have looked in the nearest reference book, but the thing is Sufism has always had adherents from [...]
Cuba is an African country
Posted in film, tagged Brecht Forum, Cuba in Africa, Cuba is an African country, documentary films, Fidel Castro, film, Jihan el Tahri, Nelson Mandela, PW Botha on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Egyptian-born Filmmaker Jihan El Tahri‘s film of post-1959 Cuba’s illustruous African connection, “Cuba: An African Odyssey” is being screened on August 7 at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan. The film charts the government of Fidel Castro’s support for African revolutionary movements specifically. More information on the film here. For details on the event, here. [BTW, [...]
Blogging about Cape Town
Posted in South Africa, tagged Blogging about Cape Town, Blogging about South Africa, Boston Globe Dispatches Blog, refugee crisis in South Africa, Robert Silverman, Yale Law School on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been keenly following the writings Robert K Silverman, a Yale Law student interning in Cape Town for a human rights organization, who contributes pieces to the Boston Globe’s Passport Blog. The blog contains “dispatches from Boston-area residents as they travel the world.” Silverman — I must have missed his earlier writing — writes really [...]
What Howard Kurtz can learn from Al Jazeera
Posted in politics, Uncategorized, tagged Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, camera-phones, CNN Reliable Sources, Crooks and Liars, Darfur, Global Village Voices, Huffington Post, media criticism, MediaMatters, Mugabe, Richard Gizbert, The Listening Post, webcams, Youtube, Zimbabwe on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you live in the US, analysis of journalism (often referred to as “media criticism”) can across as half-hearted, overly focused on personalities and not terribly insightful. Take for example the Huffingtonpost.com’s “Media” section (for all their good stuff, they had an item about Perez Hilton yesterday). There are some exceptions, like MediaMatters.org (although they [...]
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