Here are some stories that have caught my eye of late: Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics has an excerpt from what is sure to be an explosive new book on Israel’s connections to Apartheid South Africa. I’ve written a bit about the Middle East and especially Israel, and while I don’t want to […]
The Wall Street Journal has a new page on its website devoted to Africa and regardless of what you think about the Journal’s editorial stances, its news side is excellent, and you should most definitely bookmark this page. It is a great resource for news, as good as or better than any other American newspaper’s […]
Economic growth is enormously difficult to measure, never mind to predict, but signs point to economic growth rates of 4.2% to 4.8% across Africa in the next year. (As a sign of how inexact all of this is, the stories linked above vary in their assessments of the last year’s economy in Africa, with one […]
Both houses of Nigeria’s parliament have confirmed newly sworn President Goodluck Jonathan’s choice of Kaduna state governor Namadi Sambo as the country’s new vice-president. Observers believe that by choosing the relatively unknown Sambo Jonathan, a northerner (Jonathan comes from the south), has revealed his intention to run for a full term in the country’s 2011 […]
Recent news from Harare pretty much defies parody: Robert Mugabe has invited North Korea’s football team to train in Zimbabwe for the World Cup. Lack of self awareness thy name is Mugabe. Sometimes you just have to laugh to keep from crying.
My colleague Kimberley Curtis at the FPA Human Rights Blog has an important post, “Saying enough is enough,” on the implications of House of Representatives passing the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. Also check out Texas in Africa’s take on her attendance at a Town Hall meeting hosted by the government […]
I leave this without remark because some things simply defy commentary.
No surprise alert: The Atlanta-based Carter Center has raised “serious questions about the accuracy of [Sudan’s] election results.”
One of the more bizarre chapters in recent Nigerian history has come to a close with the passing of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Discerning Yar’Adua’s status had in recent months become the Africanist equivalent of Moscow-watchers trying to glean from the most modest clues the health of Soviet Premieres in the first half of the 1980s. […]
All signs indicate that Nelson Mandela really has slowed to the point where it seems fair to ask about the state of his health. In recent days it was announced that Mandela almost certainly will not attend the World Cup, an event I always assumed that he would go to the ends of the Earth […]
Texas in Africa is spending the week addressing the difference between good advocacy and “badvocacy” when it comes to Africa. Today’s post is a keeper. The money part: Africa is not ours to save. It is the height of arrogance to assume otherwise. That said, there’s a big difference: between saving someone and empowering her. […]
I received a mysterious mailing from Europe today. I assumed it was some sort of junk mail — a catalog for books or a flier for some new publication, or a new scholarly organization to join. Instead it was my World Cup Welcome Pack. I’m beginning my serious planning for my trip to South Africa […]
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