Is Rammstein racist?
The German metal band Rammstein’s video for ‘Auslander’ wants it both ways: a critique of colonialism and sex tourism, but right-wing neo-nazis can also enjoy the fascist iconography.
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Thomas Blaser
Thomas M. Blaser lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. He is currently working on race and racism in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
The legacy of the ‘German Bob Geldof of development aid’
Why don’t western friends of Africa not put pressure on their corporate and political elites to do more to combat hunger?
Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
What is wrong with this headline?
Europe’s new provincialism exacts a human toll that can only be accepted with a mind-set that subscribes to nothing more than a new barbarism.
Täschligate
Why does Oprah Winfrey or anyone else need a $38,000 handbag and why would someone sell her that.
What’s wrong with the Germans?
German reality shows that travel to Africa have the feel of colonial era ethnographic films in how they perpetuate the image of the ‘primitive other’
The View from the Cape
The chance that the lives of South Africa’s poor will change for the better without struggle, is slim.
The Geopolitics of Hunger
Former UN envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World hunger: “We Let Them Starve.”