Robocop and Bin Laden in Uganda
In Kampala, Nasser Road has become an iconic site of entrepreneurial printing, most famously, its ubiquitous posters of notorious political figures like Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.
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Kristof Titeca
Kristof Titeca is a professor at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp. His edited book Nasser Road. Political Posters in Uganda has been published with Eriskay Connection. His previous books include Rebel Lives. Photographs from inside the LRA.
When bad reporting mirrors the thing it wants to criticize
A new film about Kony 2012 is a lesson in how not to fight simplification with more simplification.
The ethics of political art
A critical review of Swiss theatre director Milo Rau’s multi-media project, “Congo Tribunal,” about the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.