Africa Is A Country points us to an interesting essay on the portrayal of Nigerians in District 9.
The middle classes in Africa (via Texas in Africa and Scarlett Lion).
Reuters on economic and political ties between Africa and Asia.
Sean Brooks parses the effects of a (possible) end to hostilities between Chad and Sudan.
Is there an end coming to the Sudan/Chad proxy war? Perhaps, and that may be a good thing in the long run, but in the short run the people of North Darfur are bearing the brunt of changing calculations by the ruling regimes in Khartoum and N’djamena. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) last week issued an urgent warning about attacks on civilians by the Chadian opposition forces operating in North Darfur. These troubling developments may be in response to the much rumored rapprochement between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President Idris Deby.
Speaking of Darfur, Rob Crilly has a nice takedown of Bernard-Henri Levy on the subject.
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