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Sur le seul marché africain, on dénombre plus de 150 marques de crèmes, onguents et autres gels blanchissants ... On skin bleaching in Africa, the US, China and beyond... a.k.a. yellow fever... The spread of skin lightening or skin firming

photos of chiefs and traditional rulers... don't know why they are labeled kings... Still reminds one of Vera viditz-ward's photos of the same in Sierra Leone and beyond

Facing the man who cut off your arm, drowned your child and sent your wife off to be raped and/or killed. Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Liberia, one village at a time

Odd article by Jo Ellen Fair about the media in Ghana - the thesis is that the government has soft control over journalistic coverage. A bit more historical perspective is needed and she misses the commercial motivations of the media owners.

On the promotion of Ghanaian cuisine in England and more generally the broadening of the palate of the locals...If "Indian" food is the standard Friday night fare for the Brits why shouldn't the Africans get a piece of the pie.

old article on that peculiarly Somali tradition that perhaps best underlies the anarchy we have seen for the past few decades and fits the stereotypes, untrustworthy, fickle, clannish, capricious and chewing khat with slights and the profit motive

Funny that I won't be going through this this year... It is a golden rule of travelling home ( and a fact of life) that you can never satisfy everybody's needs.

They performed their political satire, "The Final Push," 12 times in two days at the station, while police and officers from the feared Central Intelligence Organization argued over what charges to press against the actors and fired questions about who ha

Soyinka on the art of mammy-lorry painting, the trotro sloganeering popular in Africa. Funnily enough, the great man is derivative. There's already a whole amount of scholarship on the phenomenon. Indeed: observers are worried.

The BBC World Service weighs in on African history as only it can. Not a bad series and some of the footage is priceless. It's almost akin to Unesco's General History of Africa but in bite-sized portions.

Early missionaries to Nigeria condemned most traditional practices as pagan. Roman Catholics and Anglicans later came to terms with most practices, even incorporating some traditional dances into church liturgy. But there was no room for local gods once t

On cosmopolitans, afropolitans, modern travelers... What distinguishes this lot and its like (in the West and at home) is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them

The largest increases in immigration since 2002 have been from Poland, Lithuania and Nigeria.

"This area is the oldest corner of N'Djamena, you cannot just destroy it because of modernity". The Chadian government plans to demolish the much-loved, 115-year-old district of Gardole in N'Djamena which pre-dates the colonial powers a historical treasur

Among the most controversial songs is "We Na De Landlord" It includes the line "you nor go gi notice to landlord", local Krio dialect for "you can't give notice to your landlord", meaning that the SLPP has no intention of ever leaving office.

These posters serve as a kind of palliative: "Get to know your local strongman", wear their political cloths and so forth.

3 years ago, it was "Endangered species: the African fashion model". Now the tune is changed... The world's biggest model agency, Elite, is recruiting in the French suburbs, they want to sign up more 'ethnic' talent. Fickle we are. On beauty. Revisit.