“Libyan Desert”: Photography by Bashar Shglila
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARSEL VAN OOSTEN
(Two lovers spotted in the lower Zambezi, Zambia)
(Baobab trees, Madagascar)
(elephant at Victoria Falls- Zambia/Zimbabwe)
(small herd of oryx running across giant sand dune in Namibia)
Photography: Nana Kofi Acquah’s ‘Window to Ghana and Africa
“ICC, Africa and the mockery of International Justice” by Lord Aikins Adusei
121 countries around the world are State Parties to the Rome Statute which is the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) founding treaty- yet all ICC indictees so far have been African. I came across this interesting blog post which voices a lot of the criticism that the ICC is currently facing.
War crimes and crimes against humanity are crimes no matter where they are committed and no matter who commits them, but for the International Criminal Court and Luis Moreno-Ocampo war crimes and crimes against humanity become crimes only when they are committed in Africa and by Africans… Despite their catastrophic invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan we are told that there is nothing the ICC can do about it…
Africans do not reject or dispute the allegations that Gaddafi, Laurent Gbagbo, Al Bashir, Charles Taylor and their cronies are murderers. Africans therefore welcome the prosecution of African leaders who have tragically mistreated, killed, looted and mismanaged their countries. However, we strongly believe that judging from the magnitude of their crimes many of them are better than Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Tenet and Blair. Therefore so far as Bush and the war mongers in Washington continue to live their life outside prison, whatever the ICC does will be nothing more than a mockery of justice.
Arise- Get to know
Scouring the magazine stands used to be an easy task- I normally went for Cosmo, Glamour etc. the usual- anything cover with a famous face on it. Now I always hunt for the leading African fashion magazines. If you haven’t been through a copy already- try to get your hands on Arise. I ABSOLUTELY recommend it if you like my blog.
Uganda’s problem is not leadership. It is the population and its lack of love for the country. It does not matter how many times you change the leadership for as long as you have that very same mind set the country is going nowhere.
— Edward Mulindwa
Harnessing the potential
Today, among corporations, governments, and individuals alike, there is much optimism regarding Africa’s future. One of the main reasons for this is the continent’s enviably youthful population, whose median age is only twenty years old…
What Africa’s youths need to succeed in the IT industry
There is HUGE potential in the global IT industry for Africans at the moment. I completely agree with this article and recommend reading it. The brains are there, the talent is there… the training isn’t. This has been and will continue to be one of the biggest reasons change doesn’t come fast enough on the continent.
Lagos fashion week: “putting Africa on the fashion map”
Amid the gridlock, the power cuts and the pay rows, African designers and models are making their mark on the fashion world. Eleanor Morgan reports from Lagos fashion week…
You can read the rest of the article here.
My first question is which map? Is there just ONE fashion map we should all be headed for in order to be considered a success? Steer clear of assuming that being “on the map” is what African fashion houses/designers/models SHOULD be aiming for. We are no longer settling for being PUT on any map, thank you very much. We’re creating a new one. Tweet me your thoughts at @VivaLaVinn.
I’m not interested in acquiring a single reader in the West, or anywhere for that matter, who buys my books because they ‘care’ about Africa. I don’t give the remotest piece of a s***. I can do without the money, the love, the anything. If you want to enter and share my world then great, but don’t buy my books because you ‘care’.
— Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina
Author of ‘How to Write About Africa’ Releases First Book
Titled One Day I Will Write About this Place, Binyavanga Wainaina first book has been released. Taking us through his middle-class, suburban childhood in Kenya, this promises to be as exciting as his satirical essay which went viral: How to Write About Africa.
