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Archive for July, 2008

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 [...]

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“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.

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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: [...]

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The New York Times wants its readers to get interested. Not in the townships of course. More here.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Robert Mugabe’s junta gets all the attention, but there’s a host of other despots on the African continent escaping attention. Like king Mswati III, a virtual despot in Swaziland (covered in the new documentary “Without a King“) or the oil-rich (that’s them personally, their families and their aids, and not their people) Jose Eduardo dos [...]

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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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