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Monday 16 August 2010	Africa


Tim Black Sierra Leone and the White Shoppers’ Burden The idea that Western consumers can prevent African wars by saying no to ‘blood diamonds’ is pure self-flattery.

Monday 16 August 2010
Kieron Ryan This is a 24-carat disaster for Africa A former diamond-digger in the Congo explains how the ‘blood diamonds’ scare has made life tougher for Africans.

Friday 6 August 2010
Brendan O’Neill Hot goss: what Naomi said to the weird African prez! The cynical hauling of Naomi Campbell into The Hague shows that it is the powers-that-be, not the little people, who are most in thrall to celebs.

Friday 23 July 2010
Nathalie Rothschild The dangers of international aid A new book exposes the problems with Third World aid missions, but ends up replacing NGOs’ black-and-white view of Africa with its own.

Wednesday 21 July 2010
Nathalie Rothschild The unhealthy obsession with Africans’ sex lives The panic about footie fans getting HIV in South Africa exposes the moral colonialism of AIDS campaigning.

Tuesday 13 July 2010
Nathalie Rothschild Live Aid 25 years on – time to change the record Bob Geldof’s charitable venture ushered in an era in which Africa once more appeared as the white man’s burden.

Tuesday 29 June 2010
Brendan O’Neill Africans: such childlike, spirited footie fans! The idea that all Africans have a ‘rainbow continent’ duty to support Ghana in the World Cup is patronising guff.

Monday 14 June 2010
Tara McCormack Welcome to Amnesty’s black-and-white world The human rights group has a naive faith in ‘international justice’ and a simplistic view of high-profile conflicts.

Wednesday 7 April 2010
Nathalie Rothschild ‘No, I am the true saviour of the world!’ The clash between Bob Geldof and Make Poverty History is an unsavoury battle of ‘Africa-saving’ egos.

Wednesday 24 March 2010
Nathalie Rothschild Dam these patronising Western campaigns The environmentalists fighting to stop the construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia must have no regard for human life.

Thursday 18 March 2010
Brendan O’Neill Stop this illicit trade in bullshit stories Apparently 40,000 ‘hookers’ will be trafficked to South Africa for the World Cup. Where have we heard that story before?

Tuesday 9 March 2010
Nathalie Rothschild Live Aid: the White Pop Star’s Burden The BBC’s critique of Live Aid replaces the view of Africans as victims with a view of them as corrupt.

Friday 5 March 2010
Philip Hammond Darfur: every celeb’s favourite African war A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse.

Tuesday 12 January 2010
Tim Black The White Sports Writers’ Burden The gun attack on the Togo football team has unleashed a torrent of fearmongering about the ‘Dark Continent’.

Wednesday 9 September 2009
Mick Hume Brown and out in London and Libya The Libyan debacle has sunk Labour to depths of absurdity and impotence that even some of us Brown-haters find hard to comprehend.

Thursday 3 September 2009
Brendan O’Neill This was a cock-up, not a conspiracy The real story of the Megrahi affair is not the duplicity of the British government, but its utter cluelessness.

Tuesday 25 August 2009
Mick Hume Now it’s the ‘special needs’ relationship The furore over the release of al-Megrahi shows how the US-UK alliance has lost its sheen since the joint crusade against Libya in the 1980s.

Wednesday 5 August 2009
Patrick Hayes Sorry, but Fairtrade is a political issue BBC newsreader George Alagiah is shocked that his bosses think Fairtrade is ‘somehow controversial’. It is.

Thursday 23 July 2009
Nathalie Rothschild This invention really does suck The LifeStraw allows Africans safely to drink filthy water. Is it the most degrading gadget ever invented?

Thursday 14 May 2009
Nathalie Rothschild Mia Farrow: dieting for the cause A narcissistic ‘hunger strike’ for Darfur is getting far more attention than protests without celebrity endorsement.
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