1. Only ONE copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s new album will be made. Why? Because.
2. The Kariba Dam wall which traverses the mighty Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe is in danger of collapse.
3. Madonna’s next movie project is a love story set in Kenya #whitesaviour #justplayin.
4. Kimye get a Vogue cover and the internet explodes.
5. Jozi fashion week happened.
6. A Nigerian tourist finds out the hard way that Travelling While Black is sometimes a hazard, even when surrounded by other brown faces.
[blockquote source=””]After running for hours to save his life, Clinton managed to dodge the crowd and took refuge in a narrow lane between two houses. Vilas Bandawar who woke up hearing mayhem, saw an exhausted and injured Clinton laying naked. He helped him wash by pouring water and gave a lungi.[/blockquote]
5. Rich White Guys are buying up Zimbabwe‘s safari lodges.
6. Should the UN wage war to keep the peace?
[blockquote source=”NatGeo”]Congo has been at war or something like it for a generation. It’s estimated that since 1997, when Mobutu left power, between four and six million Congolese have died in fighting or as a result of the upheaval of fighting, through disease, hunger, and other causes. If accurate, those numbers make its conflict the deadliest since World War II. [/blockquote]
7. Kenyan gals are popular in Nollywood.
8. Shoprite bets big with a $20 mill new supermarket in Kano.
9. Corner Office interview with the Ghanian CEO of Sproxil.
[blockquote source=”Ashifi Gogo”]In Ghana, it’s much more about relationships. Recently, we closed a sale with the director of a large agrochemical company there in a record nine days. It turns out that he knew some of my relatives and had seen a story in the newspaper about me going to the White House. So he felt he could trust me. In Ghana, a lot gets done on a handshake.[/blockquote]
10. Sweden’s 40cm Ratzilla ain’t got nothing on a 90cm African Rat.
[blockquote source=”BBC”]Even the family cat had refused to enter the kitchen while the giant rat was in residence, father Erik Korsas told BBC News. It appears that it reached the kitchen via a ventilation pipe, having gnawed its way through cement and wood. After devouring food leftovers under the sink, the creature feasted on a “Swedish smorgasbord” of waste in the bin.[/blockquote]
11. Ethiopian-American Dinaw Mengestu’s new book gets a rave and an un-rave review.
[blockquote source=”Michiko Kakutani”]Mr. Mengestu writes from the points of view of Helen and Isaac with poignancy and psychological precision, deftly evoking their very different takes on the world. He also manages to make the reader understand the many things they have in common: a certain emotional exhaustion (Isaac from having witnessed the brutal fallout of oppression and revolution; Helen, from years of tending to the poor, the elderly and the terminally ill); a restlessness that’s made them curious about what lies beyond the provincial towns of their childhoods; and an understanding, as their relationship progresses, of both the balm of love and its liabilities in a hostile world.[/blockquote]
12. And finally, (Sex) and An African city continues to rack up masses amounts of views.
Africa Redux Founder Chi Kaitano.
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