There is a silent story when studying global history in the UK. This is the…
Tag: London
Hipsters Don’t Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014
Back, but a little delayed due to our site maintenance/redesign are Hipster’s Don’t Dance with their…
The Afropolitan Must Go
My first thought when reading Taiye Selasi’s 2005 essay ‘Bye-Bye Barbar’ (or ‘What is an Afropolitan?’) was that this is the kind of sludge that would piss off Binyavanga Wainaina. One quick google and lo and behold: “For Wainaina, Afropolitanism has become the marker of crude cultural commodification — a phenomenon increasingly ‘product driven,’ design focused, and ‘potentially funded by the West.’” My second thought when reading Taiye Selasi’s ‘What is an Afropolitan?’, gesturing wildly at my MacBook in my local coffee shop, is that this is the kind of sludge that pisses me off.
Film Africa (5): ‘The Assassin’s Practice’
Somewhere in the opening shot of The Assassin’s Practice there is a woman crying alone…
Africa is a Country and London’s Film Africa 2012 Festival
This year Africa is a Country is partnering with Film Africa, London’s only annual African…
Africa Utopia and London’s “Festival of the World with Mastercard”
The London Olympics starts tonight and certain streets of the city are swollen with purple-shirted…
Gaddafi Archives at the London Photography Festival
The ‘Gaddafi Archives – Libya Before the Arab Spring’, which opened this week at the…
A Room Adrift in London
Here in London we have been having a lot of trouble with pageants. After the…
Where is contemporary African art? Not at Bonhams
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on…
‘Afropolitan Divas’ in London
The second Numbi of 2012 happened – with undeniable flamboyance – last Saturday, bringing a team of…