The narrative of African women
An exhibit attempts to reframe popular perceptions and the image of African women in the United States.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
What’s Kenya got to do with it?
Solange and two other US artists want to solve the problem of access to water in Africa by teaming up with Coco Cola. That sounds like a contradiction.
Poetry Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syTnWDcl-8 Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly
ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
Cameroon is Cameroon
A mix of factors – language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression – prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.
'Mapping Africa'
This is brilliant. The BBC, working with the Royal Geographical Society, has posted an audio slideshow
The Prophet Karl Marx
Few intellectuals have changed the world in such practical ways.
'Political Art'
Negar Azimi, in Frieze Magazine, on what the ascendency of 'political art' means for art's actual
Jonathan Jansen’s Burden
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
Flying Overseas
http://youtu.be/Wd6NxkKCVI8 I am not cool like Theophelius London. I don't wear nice, patterned shirts. Solange Knowles*
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
No One Will Remember The Book Cover
I received my copy of this year's Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love in
Scarlet Lion
The American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Glenna Gordon, talks on five photographers who influenced her work.
"You no longer need your calculators to go for lunch in Harare"
As 42 opposition activists were facing treason charges in Zimbabwe for watching video footage of the
'Moore Street'
http://vimeo.com/10523895 "Moore Street" is a single tracking shot filmed on Dublin's famous Moore Street with members
Viva Amilcar Cabral
Paris-based rap group MC Malcriado–captures Cabral’s appeal to the new generation.
'Tales from the Sahel'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qov8Fng3-hA This coming Friday Maal and British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah will begin their UK tour of
Sahara Reporters
Last December I met the impressive Omoyele Sowore, founder of Nigerian online news site, Sahara Reporters.
'Vote for Umblerra'
Probably to deal with the stresses associated with next month general elections scheduled for next month--there's
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvuCCUkCRRo The video for Dutch singer Ntjam Rosie's song "In Need" featured in the latest episode