The Party is not The Nation
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week---in
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
This Generation of African Women Leaders
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we've HT'd him a few times.
Tartan Army
Kathleen Madden, in Artforum, on Zwelethu Mthethwa's 2010 series "The Braves Ones," showing through July 17th
Dakar Hustle
http://vimeo.com/20927993 Video for spoken word from Senegalese rapper Keyti--remember him? Keyti was one of the stars
Pseudo-cosmopolitanism
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I9D2yDCfc&NR=1 Rapper Stalley, late last year, channels Muhammed Ali. He could have done without the racial
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.
The Russian connection
Soviet cinema had a major impact on the narratives, styles, and tone of African filmmakers.
'The Nigerian Nostalgia Project'
This Facebook group page is worth visiting. The administrators collect photographs, including video and sound bytes, "... depicting
'Imagine life without photos'
http://vimeo.com/15038440 A worthwhile project by two Canadian brothers who grew up in 1970s Liberia--it still feels
Slipping into individualistic comfort
The daily word of inspiration (cut and pasted from Contemporary Literature) from my favorite, comtemporary Communist,
Pleasurable Music
The second lives of Faaji Agba, a collective of octogenarian Nigerian musicians who perform a mix of Nigerians’ favorite genres.
The inequality of news
Simon Kuper in the FT Weekend, takes shots at "the news," maybe also at his own
Fascism and Aesthetics
Jeremy Cronin is my favorite Communist. Astute, intellectual and a poet. Cronin is a former political
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=932nXiUN-dY Nice video for "Bienvenue au Cameroun", a track by Cameroonian (yeah) artist Ayriq Akam.
'I wanna be a Nigerian so freaking bad'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzbvPa5npmo&w=560&h=349] UPDATE: This video, "I wanna be a Nigerian so freaking bad," by a group of
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRmpJ_EpJE Dub Colossus member Samuel Yirga "plays one night a week in Addis's only jazz club/coffee
Music Break
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih4zoQGlOf8&w=560&h=349] Mikey AKA Kesse Babe, from Nigeria's Project Fame reality TV show, comes with a
'Afropolitans'
If in London next Friday. Press Statement from the Victoria and Albert Museum: On 24 June
"… new trends in Africa and the Diaspora"
At the margins of this year's Art Basel (15-19 June) and curated by Christine Eyene, FOCUS11