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Nobel Prize

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Designing Wole Soyinka

Animation and design studio Dudutoonz (see he company’s work here and here) celebrates Wole Soyinka–the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature–with this stunning piece. (BTW, Albert Camus was the first African born winner, but identified as French. Other African African writers awarded the prize are Naguib Mahfouz, Nadime Gordimer and J

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

CHAD’S PRESIDENT, IDRIS DEBY, CAN’T TAKE A JOKE

This is for real: Chadian authorities summarily expelled a Cameroonian-born journalist from the country on Wednesday, a day after he wrote an op-ed in response to a government official’s suggestion that the Nobel Peace Prize should have...

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Film / New Documentary on Wole Soyinka

“Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest,” director Akin Omotoso’s documentary film on the writer and activist Wole Soyinka will finally show here in New York City. On Friday, November 27, at 8pm. Logistics Akin, a South...

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Neoliberalism for dummies

The best 10 minutes of free education you can get from a white guy in a white coat using a blackboard, a pump, a balloon and a wood contraption to explain neoliberalism.

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