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No Good Guys
US media coverage of Africa may be scant, shallow and sensationalist, but there’s more to it than racism and lack of interest. Sean Jacobs picks apart the forces at play.
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Anchors Away
For the last twenty years television network news in the United States (US) has been dominated by three well-paid, white males. Each of whom, have developed unparalleled levels of trust and visibility amongst the American TV-watching public. But the US could now be witnessing the end of the network television news anchor.
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A terrible legacy
Ronald Reagan, celebrated this week as a world statesman and champion of democracy, was nothing of the sort if you lived in Southern Africa during his tenure. For the people of the region ”the Reagan doctrine” unleashed devastating private and state terrorism, the legacies of which they still have to contended with.
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Madiba’s magic is slowly dissipating
If a country lives by its myths, then the myth of post-apartheid South Africa must be that it had become "the rainbow nation".