Current category: Africa

Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent, says Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron.

Huffington Post had this to say:

"According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

Maybe she needs to organise herself a holiday there pronto! She can take John McCain and they can ponder their humiliating defeat at the hands of Barack Obama!  

Check out the full story over at Huffington Post.  There's a video too!

Celebs were out in force for last night's Africa Rising! Festival, held at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Yeah, we know it's not a celebrity holiday, but it's an event worth mentioning, what with Christina Aguilera's eye-popping top and vertiginous shoes and Colin Powell's impromptu dance with Nigerian hip hop artist Olu Maintain

Pictures below:

Above: Ballet and flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes

Above: Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng and wife Gyunel with children 

Above: Model Hofit Golan model (and face of Elizabeth Grant skincare)
with choreographer Brian Friedman 

Above: Singer Christina Aguilera sports an eye-popping top...

Above: .... and some vertiginous shoes

Above: Christina Aguilera headlines in her first UK performance since giving birth

Above: Seal on stage

Above: Youssou N'Dour

Above: Models Tyson Beckford and Alek Wek with celebrity jeweller Chris Aire 

Above: Colin Powell "gets down" with Olu Maintain

The Africa Rising! festival aims to promote positive images of Africa and on find "sustainable solutions" rather than the "problems" facing Africa

The London show marked the end of Africa Rising's four-date international tour, which began in Nigeria.

One of the highlights of the evening was former US Secretary of State Colin Powell performing an impromptu hip hop dance when he climbed onstage with Nigerian group Olu Maintain.

Speaking to the audience, Powell told the audience that Africa, with hard work and foreign investment, could prosper like Asia and Eastern Europe.

He said: "I stand before you as an African American. Many people have said to me you became Secretary of State of the USA, is it still necessary to say that you are an African American or that you are black, and I say yes, so that we can remind our children.

"It took a lot of people struggling to bring me to this point in history. I didn't just drop out of the sky, people came from my continent in chains."

All images: Brian Rasic/Rex Features

Paris Hilton, internet star and celebrity rich kid, is holidaying in South Africa with guitarist boyfriend, Benji Madden.

When asked by reporters what she thought of South Africa, Ms Hilton is alleged to have responded:

"I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries,"

Ye-es. Perhaps it is time Papa Hilton spent some cash on an emergency atlas for his celebutante daughter!