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TIME Magazine and the “Africa is Rising” Meme
TIME Magazine has copied what The Economist did in 2011, and decided “Africa is Rising.” Again. This week’s European edition is taken over by stories on this theme. Alex Perry, who writes for TIME from...
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Africa’s billionaires are a national elite (and they’re awesome)
Forbes Magazine recently released its second annual list of “Africa’s 40 Richest” people. The feature appeared on the Forbes homepage alongside lists of “America’s Richest,” “India’s Richest,”...
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Al Jazeera Joins The ‘Africa Rising’ Bandwagon
We recently posted a bit on Forbes Magazine’s list of the 40 richest Africans. In a similar vain, Al Jazeera has chosen to glorify Africa’s privileged few and feed into Western media outlets’ current...
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The story about the daughter of Angola’s longtime president being Africa’s...
BREAKING NEWS: The 40-year-old businesswoman daughter of Angola’s long-serving president is rich. This week the Twittersphere has gone mad over an article published by Forbes claiming that their...
View ArticleAgainst the Gospel of “Africa Rising”
Almost ten years ago, Binyavanga Wainana mocked the relentless bashing of Africa for what it is: ignorance. Nowadays, however, a new gospel could use similar deriding: “tell them six of the ten fastest...
View ArticleAfrica and the Future: An Interview with Achille Mbembe
Within a short period of time, the global, corporate discourse on Africa has swapped a refrain of hopelessness with a near eschatological discovery of a new el dorado — a place of gold from which...
View Article“An African City,” the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana
For the last few weeks social media has been abuzz with comments about a new Youtube web series set in Accra called “An African City.” The series tells the story of the “Afropolitan Returnee” and as...
View ArticleNarendra Modi’s ‘Africa’ policy
In a speech last October, Narendra Modi argued, “I believe a strong economy is the driver of an effective foreign policy…we have to put our own house in order so that the world is attracted to us.” The...
View ArticleIs Africa really rising? History and facts suggest it isn’t
In the year 2000, the Economist ran a cover story with the title “Hopeless Africa”. Four years later, Robert Guest, who served as the newspaper’s Africa Editor, published “The Shackled Continent”, a...
View ArticleCome ride with Malitia Malimob
Africa is a Country ran a profile on Somalia-via-Seattle rap duo Malitia Malimob two years ago. On the heals of the release of their latest album, Seattle-based journalist Devon Leger sat down with...
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