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Circumcision

halekon — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:01:24 -0800

Is circumcision an AIDS weapon? To cut or not to cut? Does circumcision prevent the transmission of HIV? It was deemed "An acceptable strategy for HIV prevention" in Bostwana and a study looking at the magnitude of females who get infected with HIV/AIDS/STDs through circumcision

Hippo Cannibals Ruin It For the

mcgraw — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:42:51 -0800

Cannibalism May Have Spread Anthrax in Hippos

Iraq war justified?

omidius — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:08:02 -0800

Vice President Cheney declares the no-wmd report justifies war. So what exactly were they going to do to us that was dangerous, think about the act? In related news, widespread genocide is a potential thought of an african government, let's get em?

Thank God for the camera, for the testimony of the light itself, which no mere man can contradict

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 03:55:41 -0800

The Kodak vs. the King . Images of the the Belgian Congo (aka the Congo Free State) from it's heyday under the personal rule of the very evil King Leopold. The contrast between the photographs used by Leopolds apologists and those used by his enemies (lead by the remorseless E.D. Morel) is probably unsurprising but interesting as evidence of perhaps the first propaganda war to be dominated by photography. Also, the first genocidal atrocity to be, very partially, documented photographically.

The kodak has been a sore calamity to us. The most powerful enemy that has confronted us, indeed.... Every Yankee missionary and every interrupted trader sent home and got one; and now -- oh, well, the pictures get sneaked around everywhere, in spite of all we can do to ferret them out and suppress them.

Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy

(most links go to the excellent boondocksnet site which takes as its starting point Mark Twain and his anti-imperialist campaigns and branches out most impressively from there)

Townships

plep — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:08:10 -0800

South African township art , urban art, and recycled craft, some of it inspired by the anti-apartheid struggle or day-to-day survival in the post-apartheid era (and a common 'language' in multi-lingual townships).

Human Development Report, 2003

stonerose — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:18:26 -0800

Did you know that... Aid fell in the 1990s—by nearly a third on a per capita basis in Sub-Saharan Africa? In Sub Saharan Africa, half the population lives on less than 1$ a day? At current rates Sub-Saharan Africa will not meet the poverty Goal until 2147? If all the food produced worldwide were distributed equally, every person would be able to consume 2,760 calories a day (hunger is defined as consuming fewer than 1,960 calories a day)? These and more facts can be found in the 2003 UN Human Development Report.

Post-colonial African blues

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:27:30 -0800

Getting The Hell Out Of Africa: An excellent article by R.W. Johnson describes the forces now driving out many African whites and quietly despairs. Post-colonial blues are sad and riddled with guilt and lost hopes. How far does collective guilt impinge on the individual? What if there is no guilt at all? What is the white man and woman's place in 21st Century Africa? I wonder whether it isn't still too early to think clearly about the many delicate issues involved. But then an all-black Africa wouldn't be Africa. Would it?

African village attacked by vampires.

fred_ashmore — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:36:50 -0800

African village attacked by vampires. I thought this article was an email hoax until I found it at Yahoo news via AP. Bizarre.

AIDS in Africa photojournalism

gravelshoes — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:17:47 -0800

AIDS in Africa by photojournalists Gideon Mendel and James Nachtwey (flash required)

MrBaliHai — Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:02:11 -0800

African fantasy coffins are produced by the Ga and other tribes of the Ghana coast to confer the status of travel and luxury goods upon the deceased. The coffins themselves are incredibly detailed works of art that range from miniature Mercedes automobiles and cellphones to giant fish and Coke cans. What would you like to be buried in?

rschram — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:33:56 -0800

Léopold Sedar Senghor, poet and first president of Senegal, dies at 95
He was the founder the négritude movement in French poetry, and a leader of African socialism. This "This Day" article discusses the political side, crediting him with Senegal's relative peace and success. This Libération article gives some biographical details. Like his friend and colleague, Senghor's negritude poems used images and symbolism of African folk cultures in French modernist verse to create a liberated identity for Africans.

quarsan — Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:48:47 -0800

stopping football holigans in the gambia security forces banned from football tourney - "the beating of some of the footballers, team officials and supporters of the opposing team which resulted in the admission to hospital of a footabller and the serious wounding of some supporters is a total violation of fair play and can no longer be entertained by the committee." well you've got to draw the line somewhere

rschram — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:13:36 -0800

Compulsory HIV testing: Hadn't considered that
See also: This, or this ... What's up?

coyroy — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:27:11 -0800

No child slaves on board. Of course not. Because if I'm the captain of that ship, or the customer, or the supplier, and every newspaper, TV station and website around the world has been headlining the report of my boat and its embarassing cargo for a week, while I'm still at sea, it's time for some creativity, isn't it? I could have them pick up by another vessel in mid sea. Or, like my forbears in the trade, I could chain them all to something heavy, and toss them overboard. The remaining passengers will know that silence is golden, now, and for years to come. Whatever my decision, I can't complain I didn't have time enough to consider, prepare or execute. The flipside of the information age?

gsh — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:22:57 -0800

Merck to lower prices of HIV drugs for Africa It's not perfect and it's not much of a decrease, but it's a start and long overdue.

ookamaka — Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:16:35 -0800

"Officers have even taken a large yam - a staple of African diet - into custody." Need I really say anything else?

Mo Nickels — Fri, 01 Dec 2000 03:56:00 -0800

Published a year ago, the Village Voice series "AIDS: The Agony of Africa" is an incredible, award-winning, multi-part series. Superb reporting, tight writing, wrenching emotions, factual gold mine, this series is a model for good journalism--and a klaxon-call warning about the wretched state of a continent.

cadence — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:35:38 -0800

things just keep getting sicker and sicker. anyone have a url for this game?

joeclark — Tue, 30 May 2000 21:04:06 -0800

Zimbabwe is too important not to blog My pal, technical saviour, and usurper in the race toward pessimism and gloom Luke Tymowski has quietly beavered away producing a Tomalak's Ream-esque daily digest of Zimbabwe news. Benighted Jakob Nielsen just finished saying that Web writing like this is the only way to go. Does he read Luke? He oughta. A lotta people oughta.

tdecius — Wed, 08 Sep 1999 19:50:10 -0800

Want to know when the T3 will get set up in Chad, or how much access costs in Djibouti? Check out African Information Infrastructure. It's guaranteed to make you glad you don't live in the Third World and can connect at higher than 14.4.