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Though we like to think so, we're not perfect at S & A, and one thing we have been remiss in discussing in any detail, are the all important black films made from the silent era to the late 1940's. Better known as 'race' movies, these totally independently made black films, made exclusively for black audiences (by the likes of the Lincoln Picture Company based in Omaha and of course Oscar Micheaux who made some 37 films mainly in Chicago and New York - just to name two) were the earliest attempts to bring to people of color other images, diffferent than the stereotyped and usually degrading images of black people seen in Hollywood films. Without these...
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Charly at L'ACTU DU KIVU blogs
Un voleur à Main armée tué et un autre capturé par la PNC du bataillon de la Police d'intervention rapide ;ces bandits ont cambriolés un atelier de couture avant d'être poursuivis par la police cette nuit du 18 Décembre à 1H du matin dans le Quartier Mabanga-Nodr près de la paroisse notre Dame d'Afrique
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Oops: though it's now 11 pm I just learned that today was declared by UNESCO as World Arabic Language Day. Over at the Arabic Literature (in Translation) Blog, M. Lynx Qualey prefers "Arabic Language(s) Day."
Perhaps I'll throw in my two cents over the next few days; meanwhile please check out the UNESCO and Arabic Literature links, and I'll chime in later.
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My colleague Josh Rogin has a more complete and straightforward writeup of this report, an independent look at the State Department's handling of the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, over at The Cable, but I want to highlight a few elements of it in the meantime.
In short, it demolishes some of the more outlandish storylines on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. "special mission" in Benghazi (officially, it wasn't a consulate), from the notion that the Obama administration delayed its response for some strange reason to the idea that anyone gave orders not to come to the mission's aid.
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Witnesses who spoke to Britain's Channel 4 News last week said that accounts of a massacre by a pro-government militia this month in the Syrian village of Aqrab were incorrect.
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" Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins."
Robert Mugabe
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As I previously noted, yesterday marked two years since Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation that began what we call "Arab spring" (though it may be feeling a bit wintry these days). The Wilson Center has published a collection of commentary from a variety of scholars, asking, "Has the Arab Spring Lived Up to Expectations?" (That link is the home page; full text in PDF is here.)
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Michel Sidibe meeting with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in the Prime Minister's Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on December 17, 2012 Credit: UNAIDS/A.Fiorente UNAIDS Executive Director applauds Ethiopia on its remarkable progress in the AIDS re...
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Top German sides take their domestic cup competition seriously and with the Champions League out of the way for the time being, I expect classy Dortmund to field a strong side in their match against Hannover.
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There's broad consensus among Sudan watchers that the country is in crisis, emanating from the 23-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir. The question is: What to do? The Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, hosted a panel discussion in D.C. last week about the ongoing crisis in Sudan, moderated by Richard Downie, deputy director and fellow of the CSIS Africa Program, and featuring EJ Hogendoorn, Africa deputy program director at International Crisis Group, and Omer Ismail, Enough Project's Sudan Advisor. The panelists' diverging views sparked a lively discussion over the future of Sudan and the most effective paths to move the country forward.
Hogendoorn presented a concise analysis of the current political situation in Sudan, noting that the National Congress Party, or ...
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Jacob Zuma was re-elected as the African National Congress (ANC) party president and Cyril Ramaphosa the deputy president. They won...
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The richly layered portraits of Nigerian-American artist Toyin Odutola have been on the Africa is a Country radar for quite some time. Painstakingly created with marker and ballpoint pen, Toyin's drawings have been making waves in the art world and across social media platforms. Aesthetically striking in their own right, Toyin's unique style sparks important [...]
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