Fifty Four Kingdoms
The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with “a pan-Africanist sensibility.” They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is publisher of Africa is a Country and on the tenured faculty of The New School. He edits the substack, Eleven Named People.
They do know it’s Christmas
Bob Geldof doesn’t need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
The whole ‘Zambia has a white president’ meme
When Zambian President Michael Sata died in London last week after being sick for some time,
How do we talk about the memory of Apartheid
The fact that the choices for black people under Apartheid were either martyrdom or compromise was part of the injustice of that system.
Akon’s “giant Ebola air bubble”
That story about Akon, the Senegalese-American R&B singer, performing in an air bubble to thousands of screaming Congolese in Goma, because he doesn’t want to get Ebola is false
What is the matter with … TB Joshua
T.B. Joshua proffers a version of American tele-evangelism’s empty promises to African masses, as nationalism and liberation politics lose their shine.
What would Mandela do
The South African struggle suggests that sports boycotts are effective at forcing change. For white South Africans (and their apologists), sporting isolation was a bitter pill to swallow.
Christmas Day*
UPDATED: So there you have it. After 120 minutes and a great goal by Mario Goetze
The Beautiful T-Shirt
Art, Politics, T-Shirts, Fútbol, Play: Africa is a Country joins forces with Los Angeles artists for a t-shirt project.
There’s something about “ghetto pranks”
Youtube “ghetto pranks” are meant to expose poor black people as “naturally” and irrationally angry.
Brazilians are used to this
The Mexican writer Alma Guillermoprieto declared this World Cup "the best ever." Few can disagree. A
History Class with Cheta: Who is Herbert Macaulay
Too many people have forgotten about the one Naira coin, and the chap on that coin.
Adam Sandler’s “Africa”
It’s unfunny and borderline offensive. But Late night TV talk shows can’t get enough of it.
When Maya Angelou lived in Egypt and Ghana
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans artists and intellectuals moved to Ghana as part of attempts to redefine their relationship to citizenship in the U.S. as well as their African identities.
Wole Soyinka has opinions about social media
“… I do not tweet, blog or whatever goes on in this increasingly promiscuous medium”
News of an Engagement
Why you’ve got to love the way the South African tabloid newspaper Daily Sun reported Caster Semenya’s marriage to her girlfriend