Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
On April 19th, the Deutsche Börse photography prize will open at London’s Photographers’ Gallery. Awarded annually since 1996, the prize has an impressive list of recipients — Jeurgen Teller, Walid Raad, Paul Graham, John Stezaker, to name but a few. But it seems that, although the prize’s shortlist has always been international, the jury has shifted
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Currently showing at the Arnolfini, the exhibition ‘Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction’ brings together various fictions. Science fiction becomes racial fictions become state fictions that fold into colonial fictions and back again. Science fiction becomes an umbrella...
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Comment to New York Press on “District 9″: “As a young Afrikaans South African with a fondness for interspecies-conflict-based fiction, I enjoyed D9, and still I agree with White on a...
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Nigerian-born, Brooklyn writer, Teju Cole, writing in Nigeria’s NEXT newspaper: Even making allowances for the fact that is a fable, with strong elements of satire and allegory, the one-dimensionality of the Nigerian characters is striking....
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
While some South African commentators like newspaper editor Ray Hartley, in a rare slip, are saying dumb things about “District 9″ (he got pilloried by his readers on his blog), most people are smart enough to get...
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
You can’t miss the posters for “District 9″ plastered all over Manhattan. The film opens worldwide in cinemas tomorrow.
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