Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Swedish photographer and visual artist Jens Assur has spent ten months producing an exhibition of 40 enormous-size, large-format photographs chronicling structural patterns in the everyday life of twelve of Africa’s rapidly-changing urban centers, currently showing at the Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm. And by some coincidence, he’s gone for a title of similar intent as this blog’s: the
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
A prominent South African, his name is unimportant, has yet again lit up the local blogosphere by trivializing sexual violence. He did so by describing gang rape as a free-for-all picnic and then by claiming to have...
Monday, December 10th, 2012
Stencilled on the white walls of the Iziko Gallery ‘Annexe’ in Cape Town, a bell hooks quote from Black Looks: Race and Representation: For some time now the critical challenge for black folks has been to expand...
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
As the Beninese proverb rings out, ‘an old story does not open the ear as a new one does’. No illusions exist in here. If dolls never die, neither does their past. Much like the synthesised histories...
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
The London Festival of Photography has opened, and one of its most appealing features is an exhibition of images by Steve Bloom – Beneath the Surface – a unique document of South African life in the 1970s....
Friday, June 1st, 2012
The online exhibition, The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World, put on by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora...
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