South Africa/Omicron: “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” – Rewarded With Travel Bans
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Afro-pessimism seems to have played a sinister role in the blacklisting of Southern Africa in the latest COVID saga. PRESS HERE TO READ the details. South African scientists discovered the Omicron variant of Covid-19, but as The Economist writes, “no good deed goes […]
Passing Of Top Black Designer Virgil Abloh
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Virgil Abloh, the founder of fashion label Off-White and Artistic Director of menswear at Louis Vuitton, died November 28 after a long battle with a rare cancer. He was 41 years old and his death was confirmed by the French fashion house. Abloh […]
The Cyber Scramble For Africa By Silicon Valley Behemoths – Google and Facebook
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The big guns of Silicon Valley, Google and Facebook, are in a race to bring high-speed broadband to Africa via submarine cables. Although Google and Facebook abandoned in late September their joint project for a submarine communications cable between the United States and […]
Does Africa Matter ethically In The Business of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Mary Carman & Benjamin Rosman Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology and motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthcare. But concerns have emerged about the […]
The Man Who Built The Biggest Photo Library In Africa
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Whitney Johnson “It was hard to find a single photography book in Ghana,” Paul Ninson (pictured above) told me when we met at the International Center of Photography, where he was a student before the pandemic. He also told me what a […]
The Senegalese Who Recently Won France’s Most Prestigious Literary Honors
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Caroline D. Laurent Sarr is the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving about The Most Secret Memory of Men, his novel about a young Senegalese writer living in Paris. The jury made a unanimous […]
Apartheid South Africa: The Confessions Of A Hit-man
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Keith Gottschalk A raft of confessions have been published in the past three decades chronicling the stories of white men in uniform who plied their trade as apartheid heavies and enforcers. The brutality they dispensed – killings, assassinations, torture, beatings – also […]
Black South Africa’s Cry About Her “Worldlessness”
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Panashe Chigumadzi “Ilizwe lifile!” The world is dead! “Ilizwe lifile!” Our ancestors cried as the 1779-1879 Wars of Dispossession expanded the reach of 1652’s settler colonial conquest deep into the South African interior. Our ancestors cried that it was not only Black […]
Ethiopia: US Travel Advisory Raised to Level 4
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The Department of State raised the Travel Advisory Level for Ethiopia to Level 4 – Do Not Travel on November 2, 2021. This replaces the previous Travel Advisory issued on June 7, 2021. The full text of the updated Travel Advisory is as […]
Africa’s First COVID-19 Vaccine Plants For Rwanda & Senegal
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By David Richard Walwyn: The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has become a particularly hot topic because of the gravely unequal access to […]