Share The BP oil spill has everyone focussed on the environment again. There’s lot of anger, hopelessness and upset about yet another issue that seems to be leading to global environmental death and destruction. The other day someone asked me what I thought about what’s happening in the world from an environmental perspective (BP oil [...]
Share On a post I wrote some time ago about stereotypes of Africa in the media, one of my readers made a comment that I thought was spot on. He wrote: Lola, the big part of the problem is with us Africans, lies within our own perceptions of our own selves as Africans….If we can [...]
Share As the World Cup gets underway, each day I’ll presenting at least one positive perspective on Africa and something that’s going on that I think will be of interest to you. Today I’m presenting an award-winning documentary film called Football Fables which has recently opened in London. Hopefully we can get it to come [...]
Share Africa has been on my mind a lot today. One reason is that one of my closest friends is getting married in Kenya and I’m not there. The second is that another good friend is currently on a plane on the way to Johannesburg for the World Cup in South Africa. I said last [...]
Share The Hunger Project is an organization which empowers people to end their own hunger and poverty. Yes, you heard that right – they work with people to end their own hunger and poverty. I met with them last week, and am massively inspired by what they do and their commitment to people and the [...]
Share With the World Cup being held in Africa for the first time ever, the focus of the mainstream media has increasingly turned towards Africa and will continue to do so as the games get underway. This is a major opportunity for a rebranding of Africa in the mainstream media. This is a great time [...]
Share For those of you in Manhattan, The NY African Film Festival is back for its 17th year. From April 14, it will be at Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies and finishes at the end of May. It will no doubt be worth checking out as well as a great opportunity to see what [...]
Share On April 7, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece in the NY Times about Zimbabwe. “Ordinary people,” he wrote “said time and again that life had been better under the old, racist, white regime of what was then called Rhodesia.” Really Kristof?! It’s funny that Kristof should have that view. Just [...]
Share Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer who made a book of photos called Nollywood. It was released in 2009. He is now exhibiting in Manhattan, at the Yossi Milo gallery. For those of you are don’t know, Nollywood is Nigeria’s film industry. It’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood [...]
Share Fellow writer Matilda Egere-Cooper put me on to this David Adjaye exhibition that’s currently on in London at the Design Museum. For those of who you don’t know, Adjaye is a leading British-Ghanian architect who was born in Dar-es-Salaam. It’s called Urban Africa and is “a photographic journey through key cities in Africa”. I haven’t [...]
