On Saturday, 26 March at the Swedish CinemAfrica Festival the film directors Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft of Stocktown TV will premiere their ode to new South African hipsters:”Stocktown South African Roadmovie,” a 28 minute film that “sets out to capture the creative street vibes of South Africa.” Some of the hipster acts featured in […]
Cape Town Styling
August 6, 2010 By 3 Comments
This blog post introduces my man, Brett Davidson, as the latest core conspirator of Africa is a Country. I first met Brett, a journalist, radio producer and media educator, when we hired him to work as the head of Idasa’s radio project in the late 1990s. Brett born in Johannesburg, has lived in Cape Town […]
The Photography of Liz Johnson-Artur
March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I love the work of photographer Liz Johnson-Artur. Her shot of a smoke-blowing Linton Kwesi Johnston, is an all-time favorite). You may recognize her photographs in music magazines. But she is more than. Crucially, through her work she has documented the under-reported and often invisible black popular culture in Britain for at least two decades […]
The Sartorialist goes to Johannesburg, and likes what he sees
Scott Schuman, better known for his blog The Sartorialist and as a street style photographer, took some heat after accepting an invitation to Fashion Week Africa in Johannesburg and being underwhelmed by what he saw. Instead he took pictures of South Africans on the street. “Johannesburg,” he said, “reminds me of a lot of cities, […]