Africa
Fox News Swoons Over Trump's "Sh*thole" Slur
After the news broke that the Donald Trump said, out loud, "Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?", Fox News took to the air to essentially celebrate it. This is the hate speech they live for and they couldn't wait to baptize it as presidential. ...read more
Donald Trump May Be About To Undo George W. Bush's Greatest Accomplishment
George W. Bush was such a disaster of a president that the few bits of good he did in the world get crushed under the weight of the calamities he wrought. But there is one thing Bush did that has been an unmitigated success: the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief ...read more
International Women's Day: 500,000 Girls Remain at Risk for Genital Mutilation -- and Closer to Home Than You'd Expect
WARNING: The following article contains disturbing and graphic content. On Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher, and just a few days prior to International Women's Day, moderate Islamic journalist Raheel Raza noted that more than 500,000 girls are at risk for what's known as ...read more
Is It Time To Start Worrying About Ebola?
One of the people closest to me in my life gave me something a couple of years ago that makes me laugh every time I come across it in my kitchen. It's a standard white coffee mug that features a simple design he probably put together at Cafe Press: the profile of a shark, with ...read more
Traditional Gay Wedding in Africa
I love being from Africa but the motherland definitely needs to loose some of its more homophobic tendencies. This video gives me hope for the future. ...read more
Towards an African Renaissance
I have just returned from a short trip to back to the motherland and couldn't help noticing the change in the demographics of the plane I flew out on. Around half of the passengers on this direct flight from London to Accra were now white! Of course it was mainly the half sat in ...read more
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New Species of Human Discovered in Kenya
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (from the BBC ): Researchers studying fossils from northern Kenya have identified a new species of human that lived two million years ago. The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa. The ...read more
US Newspapers Outsourcing Journalism to the Filipines?
by Will Fitzgibbon: Newspapers across the United States of America are outsourcing the production of local news to low-paid researchers and writers in the Philippines, radio progamme This American Life has revealed. In an interview with a young American journalist, Ryan ...read more
Gaddafi's Brutal End and his Confused Legacy
The autopsy report from Libya: Muammar Gaddafi's body has a bullet in the head and a bullet in the abdomen, a medical source told Reuters on Sunday. Earlier, a doctor involved in an overnight autopsy on the former Libyan leader's body told Reuters he had died from a gunshot ...read more
Photo of Gaddafi Dead
After spending months on the run, this is apparently how it ended for Muammar Gaddafi: Libyan officials and most media outlets are confirming that the above photo is legitimate, and that Gaddafi is indeed dead. However, the White House has yet to confirm the former Libyan ...read more
Understanding the Libyan Crisis
Matt Osborne has done a brilliant analysis of the Libyan crisis that is definitely worth reading in full. His conclusion: Two myths should be put to rest. First, the idea that Libya’s war originated as anything but a native conflict is nothing but paranoid speculation. ...read more
The New Land Grabbers in Africa: US Universities
Image via Wikipedia Having set back the African continent several hundred years through brutal colonialism, the West is still finding new ways to exploit the region this time through its ultra wealthy universities and its banking system. From the Guardian: Harvard and other ...read more