Share I found the whole Shirley Sherrod case to be pretty disgraceful to be honest. I’ve written a number of pieces on it for different publications, as well as appearing on the BBC talking about the nature of the media today and how easy it is to score cheap political points by manipulating the media… [...]
Share I’m going to be 30 in a few months time. I’m big on birthdays. My new year begins every November on my birthday, rather than on January 1st so I am very reflective in the lead up to it. This birthday feels big. It feels like the beginning of adulthood. One thing I’ve realized [...]
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 It’s time for the UK to have a party leader who is not just a white, Eton-educated, Oxbridge middle aged male. Enter Diane Abbott who has been on the political scene for decades – she was the first black female MP in 1987 – and is now running for the leader of the Labour [...]
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 [...]
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Share Is Jacob Zuma, with his 4 wives and 20 children an embarrassment to Africa and Africans? Is he setting a bad example to the citizens of the country he leads based on his relationship status? Or, should we all be focussing on more important issues rather than treating Zuma’s life as if is it’s [...]
Share This is my latest piece for The Guardian: Sarah Palin speaks during the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Photograph: Josh Anderson/Reuters Sarah Palin may not know that Africa is a continent, but if there is knowledge that she is not lacking, it’s a canny ability to spot, and seize, any opportunity that will propel her [...]
Share Recently I have begun advocating for a new approach to media output. I would like to see a media that is focussed on looking at solutions, rather than just regurgitating scary and titillating images and statistics (or sometimes speculation, rumours and misinformation) which don’t help the people/situation being discussed and leave those watching, reading [...]
Share Happy Martin Luther King day! I wrote a piece for The Guardian – “King dream meets Obama’s reality” - on Obama’s first year in office and what it means for Martin Luther King’s vision for America. The crux of the piece is that one person cannot singlehandedly change everything, particularly in the space of one [...]
