Looks like toothfish won’t save the British Foreign Office this time. The judge presiding over the matter, Justice McCombe, has ruled that the four Kenyan claimants, Jane Muthoni Mara, Paulo Muoka Nzili, Ndiku Mutua and Wambugu Wa Nyingi now have permission to sue the British Foreign Office for their alleged torture by British colonial authorities […]
Colonialism
July 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Mau Mau and Toothfish
April 7, 2011 By 7 Comments
In the same week that the US attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that “key suspects” detained at Guantánamo would be tried through controversial military commissions, rather than in federal court—blaming members of Congress for intervening and imposing restrictions that blocked the administration from bringing any Guantánamo detainees to trial in the US—Great Britain, another champion […]
‘Mapping Africa’
March 16, 2011 By 6 Comments
This is brilliant. The BBC, working with the Royal Geographical Society, has posted an audio slideshow showing how the continent’s been depicted on maps from the 14th century onward. A few highlights: we get one theory how the continent got its name from a tribe of Berber who lived in what is now the Sudan, […]
A view of Sierra Leone
February 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Danish photographer Kim Thue has worked on his ‘Freetown Fifty’ project for around 6 months already, and in March he is going back to finish his work. AIAC got an interview with Kim Thue and the permission to exclusively show a selection of his pictures.–Anni Lyngskaer
Nastio Mosquito’s ‘African Mind’
February 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
The Angolan artist and provocateur Nastio Mosquito’s striking, new, animated film, “My African Mind,” recently described by Frieze magazine’s correspondent “… perhaps the most powerful piece [exhibited at] the [2010 São Paulo] Biennial.” The film “… uses archival footage from the history of Africa, it speaks, with frequent irreverent humour, about the continent’s disasters, conflicts […]
Lunch at the Elysee
July 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Sarko has, yet again, got into hot water with its former French colonies in Africa. Troops from France’s former French colonies are to march down the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during Bastille Day celebrations today to commemorate their own independence from Paris, circa 50 years ago.
Africa on Film: Out of Africa
July 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
While reviewing this week’s film, Out of Africa (1985), for our series Africa on Film, I wondered what I would write about. Many people have bones to pick with this film but I was unable to distinguish what they were. The grandiose sets of colonial Kenya in the early part of the 20th century are […]
