The Week So Far

1. Adding to the fire which fuels the US/Ghana rivalry is animosity over visa’s and deportation. LOL.

2.  “Villodge”  tourism anyone? Meet “Marv, the Bush DJ.”

[blockquote source=””]Marvin Mutangara describes himself as a nonconformist son of great African parents who taught me to lead and not to follow. Marv is a DJ, passionate conservationist, wildlife expert, and adventurer. He’s lived around Zimbabwe and in parts of Europe over the years and has been involved in a Ferris wheel of craziness along the way. Some of the more off-the-wall highlights of his life include: overlanding safaris in sub-Saharan Africa; speaking Dutch, DJing, and selling banana beer at festivals in Europe; horse riding in random places in Zimbabwe, including a solo Tonga Trail ride across one of the country’s most treacherous and barren regions, avoiding lions and surviving on avocados and biltong (dried meat) for days on end.[/blockquote]

3. Who knew headphones could be so revealing? Beat’s headphones give us a look into the rituals of major world cup players in their latest ad.

4. Does the damage forced closures and travel warnings do for Kenya’s tourism economy outweigh the risk of possible terrorist attacks?

5. The joys of poverty tourism: marketing trips for bloggers are a strategy that help with awareness-raising, but does it have ethical bounds?

6. Thanks to Hollywood producers, the first remake of a South African genre film is in the works.

7. South Africa’s “Afrikaburn”, the anomaly of a de-commodified festival.

8. Are the odds in favor of US General James Linder?  This weeks’ #longread.

9. And can Al-Shabaab be stopped?

10. Africa is STILL apparently a country.

11. Lupita continues to outdo herself and make the rest of us look bad while she’s at it. What’s next? A Vogue cover story?! Why, yes. Because gorgeous. 

12. He won awards for his documentary on South African superstar “Sugarman”, less than a year later he threw himself in front of a train. Unraveling the unexpected suicide of Swedish Academy Award winning director, Malik Bendjelloul