Africa

World Notes: S. Africa, Spain, E. Timor

March 5, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

No land for South Africa's black women, Spanish workers take a hit, Indonesian impunity still reverberates in East Timor.

World Notes: Somalia, Cuba, Russia

February 26, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Somalia danger signs; new Cuban Five campaign; Russians still like "Soviet."

World AIDS Day: ‘Be faithful, be tested, be unionized’

December 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

In South Africa, a highly successful AIDS program is led by a union.

World Notes: Bulgaria, Romania, Africa, Israel, Nicaragua, China, Cuba

November 2, 2009 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Army weekly, reported last month that two new U.S. military bases are under construction in Bulgaria and Romania at costs respectively of $60 and $50 million.

‘District 9’ — profoundly racist

October 23, 2009 By John Woodford

What D. W. Griffiths did to U.S. history in his technically magnificent but thematically racist "Birth of a Nation," Neill Blomkamp does to Africa in the profoundly racist "District 9."