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A Rockstar in Rwanda: Reflections from The Fray's Isaac Slade

Forty-thousand people were staring at me, and the second song wasn’t starting. We were opening for U2 in our Denver hometown stadium last summer. We finished our first song of the set and after the cheering stopped, I realized something was wrong.  read more

Scenarios From Africa: Film Project Promotes HIV Prevention

In 2003, 20-year-old Sandra Nsambi Nzali was buying groceries with her mother in Matongé, an African district in Brussels, when she spotted a folder on the store’s counter.  read more

The Booky Man: The Book of Africa

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, now in 50 languages and 8-plus million copies worldwide, is arguably the best-known written work by any African writer … not counting Moses, the famous Egyptian, and his five notable books of the Old Testament....  read more

Kristen Bell, Ryan Gosling, Pete Wentz, Many More Help Invisible Children Pass U.S. Legislation

The cause of documentary filmmakers Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole was first portrayed in 2004 with the release of their 52-minute film, Invisible Children: Rough Cut. Six years later, the trio (who have since established the non-profit Invisible Children Inc.) is now basking in the disbelief of having a bill directly related to that cause signed into law by President Obama....  read more

Bono and Bob Geldof Guest Edit Canada's Globe and Mail

Even though Toronto’s Globe (which would later become today’s Globe and Mail) has been keeping Canadians informed since 1844, the paper has never featured guest editors—until now. Fellow Irishmen, musicians and activists, Bono and Bob Geldof, were welcomed into The Globe and Mail’s offices last weekend, where they helmed several articles focused on Africa’s future. Doing everything from assigning stories to choosing which art to run, the guest editors were given free reign of the newsroom. (“You guys are in charge,” Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse told Bono and Geldof. “This is your paper.”)...  read more

War Child

Despite the flood of benefit concerts and newspaper headlines...  read more