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The Guardian has a story on the results of a study by South Africa’s Medical Research Council. The first few paragraphs: One in four men in South Africa have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study that exposes the country’s endemic... [view entry]
Britain’s Channel 4 News–hardly raving anti-globalizers–reports on the rationale behind multinational oil company Shell’s decision to pay a “humanitarian” settlement to Nigerian activists who sued the company for the role in the state murder in 1995 of Ogoni writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and a number of others. Via Real... [view entry]
About a month ago “Global Pulse,” a TV and series on US satellite channel, LINK TV, did this quick analysis of global media coverage of Jacob Zuma, before and after he became South Africa’s fourth democratic president. As Global Link shows the media hardly blinked as it went from deriding... [view entry]
From the South African Taxijam series (something like the French and British versions). More about the series here and more about the band here. [view entry]
“100% Naija” is a show on Channel O, the (South African) satellite based music channel, M-Net (which dominates satellite TV on the continent). The show basically consists of interviews with Nigerian-based musicians. Check the video archive for interviews with artists like P Square, Femi Kuti, Charly Boy, Pretty and Sir... [view entry]
Larry Stillman, an Australian researcher and blogger emailed me about the South African-based Digital Doorway Project: “The Digital Doorway is a variant of the Hole in Wall project in India, where a robust computer is installed in a disadvantaged setting. In the South Africa case, they have designed a multi-terminal... [view entry]
This is not a post about the rugby culture in Burkina Faso sadly, but about Fulgence Ouedraogo, a lock forward who plays international rugby for France. Ouedraogo was born in the Burkina capital, Ouagadougou but grew up Montpellier, France. So it should really about French rugby. So what. Any excuse... [view entry]
J Dilla remixed Mos Def’s “Miss Fat Booty.” This is a remix of the Dilla remix by DJ Soul (the latter remix was on the now legendary 2007 mixtape, “Assorted Donuts Mixtape: A Tribute to J Dilla.” If you prefer the original. Either way. [view entry]
Excerpt from an essay in “Le Monde Diplomatique” (you need a password) on postelections South Africa by Achille Mbembe, Johannesburg-based professor of social science and history–and public intellectual (Mbembe also made a star-turn in Jihan Al-Tahri’s excellent documentary “Behind the Rainbow“: The recent elections highlighted three long-running trends that look... [view entry]
