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Sean Jacobs

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Name: Sean Jacobs

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Internet – In Brief

- This isn't another blog about “famine, Bono, or Barack Obama,” warns the blog Africa is a Country in its description on Facebook. The ironically titled blog aims, among other things, to do away with the narrative told and retold by western media that ... [Published Balancing Act News - May 03 2013]

Entities: Sean Jacobs, Global Voices Online, Famine

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

The New School

‘Africa Is A Country’ Blog Challenges West's Idea of Africa

This isn't another blog about “famine, Bono, or Barack Obama,” warns the blog Africa is a Country in its description on Facebook. The ironically titled blog aims, among other things, to do away with the the narrative told and retold by western media ... [Published Global Voices Online - May 01 2013]

Entities: Sean Jacobs, South Africa, The New School

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

The New Chimurenga

From its inception as a one-off experiment in Cape Town more than 10 years ago, Chimurenga Magazine, founded by Jean Noel Ntone Edjabe, has evolved into arguably the most creative, incisive political arts and literary publication produced on the African ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Sean Jacobs, Howard French, Mahmood Mamdani

First reported Mar 13 2013 - Updated Mar 13 2013 - 1 reports

African Football Stars in America, Part One

The news that Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins is joining Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders from his Spanish club, Levante, may surprise and excite some people. Others view it as a last pay day. Don’t forget that Martins, who burst onto the ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Mar 13 2013]

Entities: Obafemi Martins, Nizar Khalfan, Steve Zakuani, Kei Kamara

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 1 reports

When Bob Marley Went to Africa

Sean Jacobs reviews Kevin MacDonald’s critically film, “Marley,”: “The film opens on the Ghanaian coast at the remnants of a slave post, the camera then pans over the Atlantic, finally settling on the green hills of rural Jamaica (Marley’s birthplace ... [Published Global Voices Online - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: Bob Marley, Sean Jacobs, Kevin Macdonald

First reported Feb 05 2013 - Updated Feb 05 2013 - 1 reports

Star Fire

Watching the African Nations Cup in Brooklyn: Ghana vs Cape Verde in Flatbush/Crown Heights

While the Ghanaian migrant community in New York City is centered in the Bronx, there is a smaller, yet equally as Afcon-enthusiastic population of Ghanaians in the Flatbush/Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Meytex Cafe on Flatbush ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Feb 05 2013]

Entities: Ghana, Cape Verde, New York City, Star Fire, Stephen Appiah

First reported Jan 31 2013 - Updated Jan 31 2013 - 1 reports

Watching the African Nations Cup in Astoria, Queens

Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens is home to the largest Moroccan population in New York City and Casa Lounge, a Moroccan-owned hookah spot, has been the undisputed destination in the neighborhood to catch Morocco’s Africa Cup of Nations matches ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 31 2013]

Entities: Maghrib, Morocco, Durban

First reported Jan 30 2013 - Updated Jan 30 2013 - 1 reports

Watching the Africans Cup of Nations in Harlem

Acting on a tip from an Ivorian diplomat on the best location to watch Les Éléphants play in NYC, we headed up to Harlem to catch the Côte d’Ivoire–Tunisia match early Saturday morning. New Ivoire is a 17-year-old, 24-hour restaurant on 119th street ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 30 2013]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, Sean Jacobs, The New School, New York City, Tunisia

First reported Jan 16 2013 - Updated Jan 16 2013 - 1 reports

Launching Football is a Country

For a while we’ve dabbled with sports blogging on Africa is a Country; i.e. pieces on John Terry , Didier Drogba , black jockeys and, now and again, when we’ve compiled one of our beloved lists . But now we’ve decided to try to up the ante ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 16 2013]

Entities: Sean Jacobs, embryonic, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Resonance

First reported Dec 21 2012 - Updated Dec 21 2012 - 1 reports

Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions

I recently visited the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (better known by its acronym MoCADA ) in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn to view its current exhibition : NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond ... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 21 2012]

Entities: Social Media, Sean Jacobs, Long Island University

First reported Dec 19 2012 - Updated Dec 19 2012 - 1 reports

Strictly 4 everyone: Why do Kremlin apparatchiks, African rebels, and the Vatican all love Tupac?

p> Tom Friedman's column today reveals the Vladislav Surkov, the deputy prime minister and political strategist known as "Putin's Machiavelli," is actually more of a " Makaveli ": Surkov, once described as Putin’s Machiavelli, is impressive, and ... [Published FP Passport - Dec 19 2012]

Entities: Vladislav Surkov, Tupac Shakur, The Vatican

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PNG: Social symptoms of economic advancement [Published Islands Business - May 14 2013]
Internet – In Brief [Published Balancing Act News - May 03 2013]
‘Africa Is A Country’ Blog Challenges West's Id... [Published Global Voices Online - May 01 2013]
The New Chimurenga [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Apr 19 2013]
African Football Stars in America, Part One [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Mar 13 2013]
Woman, object, corpse: Killing women through media [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Mar 01 2013]
Oscar Pistorius and The Media [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Feb 20 2013]
When Bob Marley Went to Africa [Published Global Voices Online - Feb 06 2013]
Watching the African Nations Cup in Brooklyn: G... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Feb 05 2013]
Heroes of Afcon 2013: from DR Congo’s “bum shuf... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Feb 02 2013]
Watching the African Nations Cup in Astoria, Qu... [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 31 2013]
Watching the Africans Cup of Nations in Harlem [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 30 2013]
Launching Football is a Country [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 16 2013]
Our Favorite Books of 2012 [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 31 2012]
The 10 Greatest African Sporting Moments of 2012 [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 28 2012]
Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 21 2012]
Strictly 4 everyone: Why do Kremlin apparatchik... [Published FP Passport - Dec 19 2012]

Blogs

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‘Africa Is A Country’ Blog Challenges West's Id... [Published Global Voices Online - May 01 2013] This isn't another blog about “famine, Bono, or Barack Obama,” warns the blog Africa is a Country in its description on Facebook. The ironically titled blog aims, among other things, to do away with the the narrative told and retold by western media ...
The New Chimurenga [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Apr 19 2013] From its inception as a one-off experiment in Cape Town more than 10 years ago, Chimurenga Magazine, founded by Jean Noel Ntone Edjabe, has evolved into arguably the most creative, incisive political arts and literary publication produced on the African ...
African Football Stars in America, Part One [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Mar 13 2013] The news that Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins is joining Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders from his Spanish club, Levante, may surprise and excite some people. Others view it as a last pay day. Don’t forget that Martins, who burst onto the ...
Woman, object, corpse: Killing women through media [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Mar 01 2013] Since Valentine’s Day everyone has been talking about the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, although rarely in those terms. We know that her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius, shot her four times and killed her while she was behind a locked door in their bathroom ...
Oscar Pistorius and The Media [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Feb 20 2013] Post by Neelika Jayawardane and Sean Jacobs By now, the global sporting audience has heard about South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, and how his remarkable story of ascent–triumphing over his disability to compete in the Olympics, as well as ...