When Malcolm X went to Africa
“As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out.”
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Naija, London
Photographer Liz Johnson Artur, first arrived in Peckham, London, 20 years ago to live. A neighborhood
Notes on the South African Experiment
Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture
The music of Madagascar’s young people
Celebrate a country’s independence day by featuring some of the music of its young people. This is Madagascar’s turn today, June 26th.
June 25th, Mozambican Independence
In celebrating Mozambican independence day, we made a list of the most popular music videos in mid-2011.
Music Break
I forgot. I wanted to give AIAC's Boima a shoutout for his Ghetto Balms Mix Tape
It is the time for summer lists
A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxLVnn7KxfU Some new Ghanaian hiplife from PAPPYKOJO.
The Dinka Brigade
From a series by photographer Pete Miller (remember him?) of Dinka cattle raiders in Southern Sudan
Jadakiss and the King
Hip hop is usually associated with revolution and counter culture. But American artists, who visit the content, usually side with power. Like Jadakiss did in Swaziland
Music Break
The old lion of Zimbabwean liberation music, Thomas Maphumo, and his band, The Blacks Unlimited, play
The Party is not The Nation
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week---in
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