Articles in the “africa” category

Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!

Posted last year, mid-December

Excellent video from the ESPN ESPY Awards held earlier this year. It’s resurgence on YouTube is timed nicely with this release of Invictus this past weekend.
This year the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage was presented to Nelson Mandela, and his work to unite his country through love of sport.

(thx steph)

Zimbabwe inflation: -1.1 percent

Posted last year, at the end of May

We’re going down. Or up.

A Wound in the Heart of Africa

Posted last year, at the start of April

Not enough people know what’s happening here. The people, the animals, the Earth — they’re all dying and have been for a decade.

No Line On the Horizon

Posted last year, at the end of February

U2’s head-spinning 12th studio album, takes new experimental tangents and redefines the band yet again

Video: Zim’s food crisis

Posted last year, mid-February

From the Al Jazeera television network:
Aid agencies warn that more people in Zimbabwe people will have to rely on food handouts as an acute shortage of food persists.