Africa in black and white in the 1970s

Preview (and more information in French) of images from the exhibition, “The Ritual of the pose–Africa in black and white in the 1970s,” consisting of studio photographs  by Malian photographer Malick Sidibe and his Senegalese counterpart Oumar Ly, now on show (till November 27th) at the Musée des Arts Derniers in Paris. The one above is by Sidibe.

Further Reading

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

The new antisemitism?

Stripped of its veneer of nuance, Noah Feldman’s essay in ‘Time’ is another attempt to silence opponents of the Israeli state by smearing them as anti-Jewish racists.