What I Wasn’t Taught In School: Black History Month!
There seems to be a lot you haven't told us, and you shut down and hold back on the bold ones who stand against the way you're trying to mold us. Here's a short spoken word film about a student who is frustrated at the repetitive black history teaching i ...
American Media and The Ebola scare
Russell Howard looks at the extreme difference in coverage of Ebola in the UK and USA. // fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); // ]]> Post by Football is a Country. // fjs.parentNode.insertBefore( ...
Madam Secretary’s Republic of West Africa
On October 26, Madam Secretary, the new CBS show starring the lovely Tea Leoni as an affable, idealistic secretary of state, aired its sixth episode titled The Call. IMDb lists the episode's synopsis as "Elizabeth faci unexpected consequences when she mak ...
Adam Sandler Went to Africa the Hollywood Way
Adam Sandler has a new movie out called “Blended”, starring Drew Barrymore. Adam's character, Jim, goes on a karmically bad date with Drew's character, Lauren. They somehow happen to know the same person who has TWO tickets to Africa. This person gives th ...
List of African countries (54)
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of Congo Republic of Congo Cote d'Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gab ...
The danger of a single story
I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I ...
