Saturday, February 18th, 2012
No we’re not on a mini-Spoek Mathambo marathon today. Intrigued by Spoek’s remix of Seun Kuti and the trailer for his new album, we googled Spoek anew and stumbled upon this video of a 2011 presentation Spoek gave at TedxSoweto (it was only uploaded onto Youtube at the end of last month). What I find useful
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
The work of one of my favorite artists, Michael MacGarry, one of 100 artists invited to South Africa’s largest art exhibition, the Spier Contemporary. (The list is good for getting a sense of contemporary mainstream art in...
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Race politics in Ghana
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