The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness of rainbow metaphors, is looking for photographs capturing “the Rainbow Nation”. They’re working with the Johannesburg Bailey Seippel Gallery on this. The photographer’s entries will have to display “multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-racial South Africa”. For real. It’s not the […]
An interview with Aaron Elkaim, a documentary photographer based in Toronto, whose photo-essay “Exodus” explores the remains of the Jewish communities in Morocco.
Somali-Canadian R&B Singer A’maal Nuux wants to be Mufasa. The description of the song on Youtube says, “This song touches on the devastation and upheavals afflicting Somalia… offers a message of hope calling on the people that a devastated nation can actually rise from the ashes of war!” A little Somali pride in your radio R&B. I […]
Crooner Corneille (born in Germany, raised in Rwanda and now a Canadian citizen) performs two of his songs with the help of rapper La Fouine (French of Moroccan descent)–we’ve featured them here before separately–live on French radio show, Planete Rap Skyrock.
A long, long time ago when there was still Apartheid, I needed a passport to travel by bus from Cape Town to Durban in South Africa. That meant going through the “independent homeland” of Transkei in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. If you forgot that’s where the state banished surplus black people and from where capital […]
* The photography of Bronwyn Lace (via Feizel Mamdoo). * The short film project, 15 Malaysia. You can watch all the films online.
I co-wrote (along with my friend Herman Wasserman) this op-ed, copied below, for Canada’s leading daily, “The Globe & Mail,” commenting on the case of the young white South African, Brandon Huntley, who was granted refugee status by an immigration tribunal there after he claimed black South Africans were formenting a race war against whites: […]
