Method to the Madness

This over at NigeriansTalk and this piece at The Economist's Baobab Africa blog on how expensive Angola is have me thinking about the ...

Ogaga Ifowodo is criminally slept-on. Something that jumps out at you at every poem of his (my favorite is Homeland ) is his use of imagery....

Over at the Boston Review , Pranab Bardhan is eloquent in making the case against NGOs and their effectiveness and goals. The point that lo...

The Caine Prize has a new winner. From the press release at the Caine website. Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2011 Caine Prize f...

Al-Jazeera's Inside Story has a great piece on famine and conflict in the Horn of Africa. It'll never stop being annoying how you ca...

Can't say I didn't see this coming -- the AU has decided not to honor the ICC arrest warrant, meaning that Gaddafi is still free to ...

In an initiative hosted by Aaron Bady ( ZunguZungu ), I am joining a coterie of awesome bloggers in reading and reviewing entrants for the C...

Ben Okri is as eloquent as ever when he talks about his work on the latest edition of CNN's African Voices. On Africa: When I see A...

In an initiative hosted by Aaron Bady ( ZunguZungu ), I am joining a coterie of awesome bloggers in reading and reviewing entrants for the C...

I haven't put up a jam session in awhile, so here's some songs from South Africa I love right now. I've loved a lot of what I...