Renunciation and redemption
The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee’s novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, ‘Disgrace.’
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
The Emperor has no clothes
How do we make sense of the current direction of the ANC, described yesterday by Archbishop
The Unofficial World Cup Song?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_Ew6zsnDY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Is this playful ode to coloured identity,* becoming the unofficial World Cup anthem? Apparently South
Mandela’s Children
Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.
Flavor of the Month
The UK Observer, despite its best attempts, does not have its finger on the pulse of the South African literary scene. The World Cup didn’t help.
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
Goal!
The cover of the May issue of the Spanish edition of Esquire gets into the World
Photography: 'New Men'
[slideshow] From new work by Cape Town-based photographer Araminta de Clarmont. A photo series on ikrwala
Africa, Now With Internet
Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?
Nas and Damian Marley channel Amadou and Mariam
[audio=http://thefader.cachefly.net/nas-damian-marley-Patience.mp3] "Patience," another track of the much anticipated "Distant Relatives" project. Nas and Damian Marley channels
Friday Music: Jalin Rose
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10881896 w=500&h=281] Love this video and rapper Jalin Rose's flow. The sample is off Ski's "24
South Africa. It's in South America
Apparently on a Chicago TV station. Let's hope this a spoof. Otherwise it explains this kind
Paul Sika, "Andy Warhol’s grandson"
The very talented Ivorian artist Paul Sika (I've linked to Paul's work last year on my
The Lost Bushmen
It is still okay to create the most objectionable stereotypes about certain Africans and for it to be considered fine. This time: India.
Film: Filip De Boeck's "Cemetery State"
The Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck (remember his excellent "Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City") recently
Video: Interview with artist Thando Mama
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWdGfKXK3U&w=500&h=307] A 9-minute excerpt from a new short video documentary (20 minutes in all) about the
Reality Check
"... The Kibera slum in Nairobi is home to between 500,000 and 800,000, living in cramped
Bok van Blerk’s Darkest Africa
Bok van Blerk’s new music video mines familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country saved by a blonde heroine and her white male companion.
The Model and The Activist
The one about the black model we all love to hate and the white activist we all just love.
Two Annoying White Men
When Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper thought it was OK to get two white, Irish men to edit a special issue of the paper on Africa.