'The Black Image In An Era Of Globalization'
My department at The New School is co-hosting a two-day conference on "Re-Mixed and Re-Mastered: Defining
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
There shall be satire for all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjhoTvo5lM Recently Al Jazeera English's media review show, Listening Post, did a breathless profile of South
Google Mandela
You know what Nelson Mandela was trying to calculate in the image embedded above, right? While
The History of 'South African' Cinema
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXuqzqFG8o The Johannesburg filmmaker Cedric Sundstrom has been working on a documentary film on the history
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpgVXEBPSA The video for Gil Scott Heron and Jamie X's "I'll Take Care of U," from
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.
Tidal Waves Goes South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9kJbnoPtI Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money--what else do they do?--gets our
The Beautiful Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZMjHzWXQc Correction: You don't have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English
'Africa's First World Cup' Revisited
We're allowed to talk about the 2010 World Cup until 2014. Later today our man, historian
Street Photographers in Brazzaville
By Lebon Ziavoula, a member of Congo-Brazzaville photographers collective, Generation Elili. Via Afrique in Visu.
The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo’s whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsowLHE6f0Y We've plugged Fredy Massamba before. 'Ntoto' is taken from his album Ethnophony.
'Shaka Zulu'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxZvvETnPE Not sure what to make of the video. The video was filmed "in Africa." Kage
Save the Museum (in Uganda)
Just about this time last year, Uganda lost a priceless part of its cultural heritage when
Music Break
Alsarah & The Nubatones came together out of a collective love for Nubian music and a
File Under No Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTtUqxklzs Another of those pending posts. The video for "Flying High" for the British rapper Chipmunk
'Nigeria's first fashion magazine'
http://vimeo.com/20490998 Part promotion, part video profile of "Mania," a new Nigerian magazine billed as a first
'America as … point of reference'
The artist Dawn Okoro (take the link to her blog) on her most recent work: I've
March 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg18qsycBk It's late already, but it is still March 6: Ghana Independence Day. Dutch rapper Kno'Ledge
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7boL1EkW7M Mos Def, "Umi Says," Live at the Austin City Limits Festival 2009.