Gay in Africa
Two photographers – unrelated – highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
The View from Freetown
An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone’s capital.
Madagascar at the Oscars
A French filmmaker witnesses a “the turning of the dead people” ceremony in Madagascar. Amazingly, the film explores this event without necessarily exoticizing it.
The Murder of David Kato
This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu’s murder.
A’na Afriki
The connections and shared lineage between Africa and the countries of the Arabian peninsula.
Luanda is Expensive
Those who pay the highest price for the high cost of living in the Angolan capital are not expatriates, but Angolans.
The Uprising
Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.
Branding The New Black
Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.
Found Object, No. 11
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwOqtiVVCI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Corrected: A rare film clip (there must be more where this came from), posted on Youtube
I'm Gonna Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAFe_TnVsc No more "Down on My Knees." Nigerian-German singer Ayo's new--well at least one month old--single
The Black Portrait Symposium
Posing Beauty explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in
The Race Card
Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl6ZcSJ_KY Tidal Waves (the "hardest working band in South Africa" - they really are) played a
'100% Liberian'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnjer2C6Zn4 African nationalism from an unlikely quarter; rapper I-20 from Ludacris-owned label, Disturbing Tha Peace. Great
The Youth of Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_qL0IXdKQ Old Master Boubacar Traoré (also known as Kar Kar, “the one who dribbles too much”)
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Df8yPn_bc&fs=1&hl=en_US] A little Luso Rap infatuation I've been harboring for a while has led me down
'Lost in Kinshasa'
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Photography: Yamandú Roos
Security Guard, World Cup, 2010, Soweto, South Africa. More here.
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM4tQ_w__RM] The new video for Nigerian Afrobeat funkster Bantu's tune "I'm Waiting." It's part of the