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April 29, 2012

The magazine as Tumblr

Globetrotter is one of those vaguely defined, international, cosmopolitan culture and fashion magazines. With connections to Chicago, Lagos, and Jakarta, the magazine consists of an eclectic pastiche of commentary on various…..

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April 14, 2011

The Falcon of Qatar

The Spring Issue of Middle East arts magazine, Bidoun, is about sports. This includes a piece on “Kenyan long- and middle-distance runners who have found infamy and fortune as Arabized…..

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April 22, 2010

Vogue Africa

The photographer Mario Epanya wonders what a “Vogue Africa” magazine would look like. The pictures are beautiful, but do Africans really want or care about their own version of a…..

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December 21, 2009

POP'AFRICANA

It’s worth checking out Pop’Africana, a brilliant fashion blog that styles itself as “… “The Africana Global Book of Style.” I really like the aesthetic and the cultural politics of…..

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September 22, 2009

The International Magazine Meeting

Art Berlin Contemporarystarting today through the February 27th, featuring “… the most engaging publications in the current sphere” (including Cape Town art-politics magazine “Chimurenga”: A prior, Afterall, Archive Journal, Chimurenga,…..