The Mapping Stereotypes Project
The full set of "maps" here. H/T: Ignacio Fernandez Amunategui
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Denzel Washington is a Cape Town cop
When Hollywood comes to our doorstep they use Cape Town as a cheap stand in for somewhere else. We don’t get to see our city on screen; represented authentically.
'Suit Up'
http://vimeo.com/31434026 Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over
Music Break. Dengue Fever
http://youtu.be/5Lgy1p6mdVg A lot of music we like don't come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhwKO7AIsc Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) - Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording
What Ugandans think of Obama’s “Special Forces”
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
Music Break. Jolly Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZoImzA5iO4 These guys remind me of Sunday afternoons at my great aunt's house in Parkwood. This
Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic ‘greatest hits’ and childhood wonder on film.
Photography. Alec Soth
Michael and Dominique, Detroit, Michigan. From Soth's series "Sleeping by the Mississippi."
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed
'Julius Malema sets the cultural agenda'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kUhrBGVS8&w=600&h=369] The third season of "90 Plein Street," a scripted series about the travails of a
Music Break. Booker T. Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIB6g9uay2U Booker T. Jones on the keyboard with Jim James (of My Morning Jacket fame) singing
“I don’t go for third terms”
By Elliot Ross Kinnah Phiri is a hero of Malawian football. As a player, he
Uganda’s Guantánamo
If you’re accused of ‘terrorism’ in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.
Photography. Nana Kofi Acquah
Ghana. Here.
Occupy Africa
http://youtu.be/FnCV2tlsDqU How do Africans--ground zero for resource extraction by the world's 1%--feel about the now global
Viva Kinshasa
One of the most exciting films to come out of the continent recently is the
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition
5 for le weekend. "Propaganda" one of a series of songs/videos made by The King's Will --one
Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian philosopher, talks about coming out as gay.
