EXAMINING AFRICAN MEDIA’S COVERAGE OF SA’S IMMIGRATION CRISIS
We have to reexamine the role and responsibilities of African media coverage of the recent 30 June protest marches in South Africa. We have seen this happen in the 1980s. South Africa had one of the biggest concentration of foreign correspondents. It was a turbulent time. When journalists “parachute in” to cover a story, they […]
TOOTHLESS ICC TOO SCARED TO TACKLE “GENOCIDAL BULLY” TRUMP
Time seemed to stand still. The world went eerily anxious, waiting with bated breath. Donald Trump’s finger was on the trigger as the clock began to race faster. Iran, a nation of more than 90 million people, was on the brink of apocalypse. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” […]
SA LAMBASTE THE US OVER SANCTIONS AGAINST ICC JUDGES
South African government has lambasted the Trump administration for imposing sanctions against judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move regarded as a sheer act of intimidation against the court’s decision to issue a warrant of arrest for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a media statement laced with diplomatic speak from the […]
BURKINA FASO’S TRAORE SIGNALS THE RETURN OF REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA
In Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, a structure has risen that embodies more than just memory: it symbolizes vision, renewal, and resistance. It is the Thomas Sankara Mausoleum. The Thomas Sankara Mausoleum, designed by the internationally acclaimed Pritzker Prize-winning Kéré Architecture, is not merely a tribute to a distinctly revolutionary icon. It is a […]