A Bombastic Element
A blog by boloruntoba
Blog description:
This blog chronicles musings of an African on an array of topics not necessarily exclusive to the continent of Africa
Blog Rank:
A Bombastic Element ranks 237 in Africa and 12 in Africa General. According to site visitors it ranks 170, and 177 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 826 and 866 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Africa: T'Challa - "The Black Panther" Animated Series
Marvel comics and BET's "Black Panther" animated television series had its world premiere on the Australian children channel ABC3 on January 16, 2010. Check out the trailer - here. As we wait with breaths baited for its premier Stateside, signs that T'Challa in his own animated series is
Nigeria: "Super Villains of the Modern Age" - Cont'd
Still from the opening shoot-out from Miquel at Subsaharska A few months before South Africa-Canadian director Neill Blomkamp's District 9, Gavin Hood, another kickass South African director, directed X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which opens with Logan and his fellow mutants, landing in Lagos and disposing, Jedi-style, a bunch of generic Nigerian-blood
South Africa: Spinning Polygamy
University of Kwa-Zulu Natal's Ndela Ntshangase traces polygamy in South Africa back to a cultural means of correcting the fact that there are more women of a marriageable age than there are men to marry them, and as a result he describes polygamy as "selflessness in practice" to stem the
Nigeria: Sade - She Likes to Start and End a Decade, Cont'd
NYT streams the track "Bring Me Home" from the "Solider of Love" album which drops tomorrow and asks Sade what's the deal with all her melancholy...: Melancholy is quite healthy if it's expressed or used artistically because its actually a tool by which you get it out and help other people get
Kenya: Where Newspapers Prosper
pic: AP/Mail Online The internet maybe killing newspapers in the United States, but Karen Rothmyer, former managing editor of The Nation, explains in Columbia Journalism Review about why newspapers are thriving in Kenya. H/T: The Daily Dish
South Africa: Mules Left in Peru
Over at Times Live, filmmaker Rory Sheldon and Peruvian journalist Mauricio Lombardi are currently documenting the growing numbers of South African drug couriers arrested leaving Peru’s international airport in Lima each month with large quantities of cocaine... Somehow, I can't help being reminded of this conversation
Zimbabwe: Parents Take Charge
Still faced with the government's lack of resources in a much improved education sector, AFP reports on how that parents' taking responsibility for their children's education: The report doesn't mention if these are the kids of the "85% submerged and drowning class" and not just those of the
South Africa: "A Knife Must be Ground to be Sharpened"
1966: Mandela and Walter Sisulu talking in the courtyardof Robben Island prison. The picture was taken secretly by a fellow prisoner and smuggled out. Photograph: Hulton/ Guardian/ (Notes On)... 20 years ago this Thursday (Feb. 11, 1990), Nelson Mandela emerged from prison a free man after 27 years of confinement. NYT Op-Ed editors
Southern Sudan/ Zimbabwe: NERW
CNN's Christian Purefoy explains why Zimbabweans are the most sought after de-miners in the world:
Equatorial Guinea: A Dictator's Kid
Gawker managed to lay their hands on a picture of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue--son of the Equatorial Guinean dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo--rocking an S-curl and his million dollar watch. Someone familiar with his lifestyle commented: I have seen him a few times and this is my report on
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