Radio France Internationale interview

by Joe Black29 January, 201829 January, 2018

Last week, I was on Radio France Internationale (RFI) being interviewed about my book, ‘Behind Enemy Lines and Other Stories’. In this month’s Africa: Stories…

How To Be A Zimbabwean Journalist

by Joe Black16 September, 201526 September, 2018

Newspapers are held down by rocks to stop them blowing away at a news stand in Harare, Zimbabwe Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Longtime President Robert Mugabe ignored a midday deadline set by the ruling party to step down or face impeachment proceedings, while Zimbabweans stunned by his lack of resignation during a national address vowed more protests to make him leave. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Newspapers are held down by rocks to stop them blowing away at a news stand in Harare. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Or, An Anecdotally-Accumulated Anthology of…

Open Letter to Open Letter to Toni Braxton

by Joe Black28 August, 20154 October, 2015

This was a twitter rant, but I may as well write it all down here for my Facebook Philistines. I had no choice but to…

ANC Youth League is being typical of itself.

by Joe Black12 June, 200929 November, 2012

Redi Direko of Talk Radio 702 interviewed Floyd Shivambu of the African National Congress Youth League. Let’s just say it didn’t go the way Zuma…