From photographer Robin Hammond’s images of Zimbabweans working at small scale, illegal gold mines in neighboring Mozambique.
The full set on his website, which also includes series on South Africa, the DRC, and the mentally ill in South Sudan.
H/T Jonathan Faull
New track and video, above, for “O Caminho” (The Journey) by London-based rappers “>Fachadaz (b. in Portugal). The song is produced by Faith SFX. The lyrics, part English, part Portuguese (translation here, just scroll down) is about their “… personal struggles for a brighter future on foreign soil.”
Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal (think Dirty Tackle and The Spoiler), Davy Lane blogged about football. He started again before the 2010 World Cup which took him to South Africa and then post-World Cup to Mozambique, through his blog, The Other Football, and later at the blog Football is Coming Home, which I had started along with football historian Peter Alegi. Davy’s dispatches, following the Uruguyan team, between Cape Town, Kimberley, Pretoria and Johannesburg, and his giving a voice to ordinary South Africans talking about their World Cup, are still worth reading. Anyway, we asked Davy his impressions of all kinds of media consumption in Mozambique and South Africa. Read it below. The images are by Alyssa Sealock, a student of mine at the New School who had spent time in Mozambique.–Sean Jacobs.
The video for “Fairy Tale” by South African-based Mozambican band, 340ml.
The video was shot in the Mozambican capital, Maputo.
It’s probably that bit of Radio Freedom dialogue from “Catch a Fire“? (I think I heard he had a South African or African liberation movements connection in his family.) It does not matter as he is brilliant either way.
Elections in Southern Africa is usually one big party if you’re the ruling party and if you’re not in Zimbabwe. Take Mozambique, South Africa’s small neighbor to the northeast, where the rapper MC Roger sells record on the back of the electoral campaigns of the ruling Frelimo (they’ve governed uninterrupted since independence in 1975–the opposition is so bad and tainted). You may not be a Frelimo supporter–they won the elections at the end of last year–but you’ll tap your feet to this tune, “Mocambique sempre a subir” (Mozambique is always improving). Nice beat.
Via Anne Pitcher
