Discovering a country through film
Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Yasiin Bey plays a mbira …
This was done for GQ Magazine. He also raps half-heartedly. I suppose, we should be "tril(led)."
Michael Jackson in Tamale
A review of a new memoir by Ghana’s new President, John Dramani Mahama.
Remixed Metaphors
Guinean-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba deftly “merges” aesthetic traditions.
Hugh Masekela’s ‘Stimela’ gets a makeover
Wynter Gordon’s remake of ‘Stimela’ suggests more challenging possibilities.
My favorite photographs N°6: Stanley Lumax
Stanley Lumax (born in New Jersey, US where his parents, Ghanaian immigrants, settled) lives in Brooklyn.
Malawian Twitter is not a gentle place
By far the best place to follow Malawian news and politics is social media app, Twitter. It can be relied upon to be the very first place where Malawi’s breaking news gets to the rest of us.
The world’s media and Angola’s elections
The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iverlIH__h8 Another ten music videos that we've been playing a lot recently. The first one above.
Big Frizzle’s ‘Africa’
This music video for Big Frizzle's 'All Black Everything', produced by London-based media house GlobalFaction made
The trouble with South Africa’s middle class
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
10 African films to watch out for, N°2
'Grand comme le Baobab' ("Tall as the baobab tree") is a film told through the voice of
A certain Israeli psyche
Israel’s Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
The Dutch ‘King of Africa’
In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.
The fear of being a terrible writer
A South African writer gets invited to the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. Her main takeaway: writing is an act of faith; an ancient form of prayer.
My favorite photographs N°5: Abraham Oghobase
Born in Lagos, photographer and artist Abraham Oghobase still lives in the Nigerian metropolis. His work
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°17
Rounding up some music videos we've been tweeting over the past weeks, this is your Friday
Zanele Muholi’s “Mo(u)rning” | Exhibition
On Thursday, July 26, the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town had an opening: Mo(u)rning. Photographic
Ghanaian film posters and viewing cultures
The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.
10 African films to watch out for
http://youtu.be/tLyhZlgWIpM This is a random selection of ten films we don't know much about, yet, but