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Category Archives: Africa
Cute Koala Bear Factoids
From a CNN piece on “Nelson Mandela: 10 surprising facts you probably didn’t know“: He lived up to his name: Mandela’s birth name was Rolihlahla. In his Xhosa tribe, the name means pulling the branch of a tree or troublemaker. … Continue reading
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Selling the Teddy Bear
Did *you* know that Nelson Mandela’s “real” name (his clan name) is “Madiba”? I didn’t. But Barry sure knew. Wait. I thought black South Africans, and St. Mandela in particular, were beyond race, beyond clan… in fact, beyond racist Western … Continue reading
Sign Language Interpreter at Mandela Funeral
Yet another example, this time at one of the msot poignant instances possible for driving the point home, of of how Africa is, well, different than the West: (CNN) — To those outside the deaf community, the sign language interpreter … Continue reading
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Nairobi Mall Terrorists May Have Escaped
On the day of the incident, we already had reports of the chaotic police and military response. Now we have this, which, if true, is one more example of how the West is different than Africa: A report by the … Continue reading
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Conservative Inc’s Mandela Problem – Pt. 2
To the aforementioned points about Conservative Inc’s Mandela Problem, Mediaite is on a virtual 24/7 cycle of pumping out posts on liberals’ highlighting of conservative opposition to Mandela in the ’80s, as well as on the gulf between Conservative, Inc … Continue reading
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Conservatism Inc’s Mandela Problem
As Nelson Mandela enters a whitewashed cultural sainthood, video of Mandela singing “Shoot the Boer” (“Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!”), a song about killing whites whose ancestors have been living in South Africa for over 400 years, will no … Continue reading
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Mandela
From Bono’s column on communist Nelson Mandela’s passing: In 1985, U2 and Bruce Springsteen responded to Steve Van Zandt’s call to lend our voices to an artists-against-apartheid recording titled “Sun City.” Sun City had been set up on the border … Continue reading
Jewish Support of ANC
Tablet (“A New Read on Jewish Life”) is another of the many ethnocentric webzines focused on Jewish identity. “Nelson Mandela Was a Revolutionary—and These Jews Made Common Cause With Him” is an article the historical analogues of which took place … Continue reading
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Jeffrey Sachs’ Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa
Howard French writes on the hubris of Jeffrey Sachs, whose Millennium Village [MV] projects, intended to wipe out poverty by 2025, has wrought all sorts of unintended consequences. Of an MV set up in northeastern Kenya: As MV money poured … Continue reading
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Boko Haram
Muslims in Africa doing what they do best: At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials. Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints … Continue reading
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