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When Obama launched into his story with “Because I love pie,” a woman out in that sea of cheering, laughing people shouted back, ” I’ll make you pie, baby!” and to the general hooting laughter the candidate returned, “Oh yeah, you gonna make me pie?” Then, after a beat, amid even more raucous laughter, and [...]

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A while back I read Ken Wiwa’s book and watch the documentary about his relationship with his father and the development of his own exemplary political identity (he led the tragic campaign to prevent his father execution by the Nigerian junta in 1995). Wiwa’s book also included interviews with children of other African political leaders: [...]

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Yes. that’s an actual quote from a white Christian. The Bible apparently says so. Even though it doesn’t. And this came from someone who would benefit from one of Barack Obama’s more controversial proposals should the Illinois Senator become President next week (think Joe the Plumber): “… We stopped at an ethanol plant in Craig, [...]

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‘Afropean‘ (French and West African) jazz vocalist. Samples here

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Writer Es’kia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele has passed away. He was 88 years old. Mphahlele is best known for “Down Second Avenue,” an autobiography published in 1959 that describes his early years in rural northern South Africa and later in a bustling Pretoria black township. The book ends with the writer’s exile from apartheid South Africa in [...]

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Men cry, women are overwhelmed. A woman in a wheelchair stands up and marches on stage to dance. It’s not a Jacob Zuma rally or court appearance. And it is definitely not a preview of this weekend’s “National Convention” in Johannesburg organized by ANC dissidents, Mosiuoa Lekota and Sam Shilowa. Read the full story in [...]

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On Sunday the city’s main streets get taken over by The New York City Marathon again. I’ll be at my usual spot on Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene looking out for the top African runners like Hendrik Ramaala and Paul Tergat. But one of the thousands of competitors will be a familiar face: Zola Budd. [...]

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What the presidential hopeful might do with his 30 minute slice of prime-time network TV tomorrow night. He’ll be on CBS, NBC, and Fox. It cost him nearly $3 million: Bruce Campbell, actor: A low-budget horror movie called Barackula: He sucks the life out of Republicans. More suggestions at New York Magazine.

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How the rightwing nuts in the McCain campaign have framed O: Obama is a Marxist Muslim Arab Jesus Black White Terrorist Technocrat Racist Do-Gooder Liberal FDR Stalin Hilter Commie Fascist Gay Womanizing Naive Cynical Insider Noob Boring Radical Unaccomplished Elite Slick Gaffe-Prone Pedophile Pedophile-Seducing Liberation Theology Atheist Etc. & Anti-Etc. with a bunch of scary [...]

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