Archive for the ‘Elsewhere’ Category
Poorism vs. Tourism: A photographer's take
Hop over to Scarlett Lion’s blog and read today’s Context Africa piece, about photographer Samantha Reinders. She’s been photographing Township Tourism in South Africa since 2004. Among other things, she points out that this kind of tourism isn’t static: I have seen the industry at large, as well as the actual tours, change for the [...]
Want to see Africa as you never have?
Check out the photos of Paul Sika, who takes the visual tropes of Africa and electrifies them. He tells you how and why he does it in Glenna Gordon’s latest Context Africa.
South Africa loses feisty AIDS activist, poignant digital diarist
This happened last week, but I only just caught up: 24-year-old Thembi Ngubane died last Thursday, after becoming an incredible force for fighting HIV/AIDS. She did this in part by recording a year in her life living with AIDS, as part of Joe Richman’s Radio Diaries series. Her story starts: “Every morning, when I wake [...]
Read this book now
A week or two ago, I mentioned journalist Andrew Rice’s first book, The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Will Not Forget. I told you I liked it, but I had to stay mum. Waiting on the review to run and all. Here’s the review. I’m not kidding. This debut book is stunning. And I’m [...]
I’m sorry, Angelina, but this is too much
TIME ran an article on Friday about the ICC and Bashir. Not a long article–it’s hard to find those any more–but a “context” piece, using recent developments at the court as a peg for a review of the Bashir indictment situation. It’s called “The Case Against Omar al-Bashir.” Case, get it? Like, legal case, but [...]
"Your president's a jerk, let me buy you a sandwich"
This comes from the amazing Tom A. Peter, a Middle East correspondent for GlobalPost. It’s a wonderful reminder of two things: First, that just because Obama says nice things In The Muslim World doesn’t mean all Muslims are going to love America (again, or ever). And that hating a government is not the same as [...]
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