“Keep Africa Alive,” Continued
The campaign is accompanied by print ads featuring celebrities in coffins to represent their digital deaths. Can this stop, please?
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WgjyU-xOG8 K.ommando Toxik's output has been prolific this year. See for example their Persona Non Grata
T.I.A*
What is either a gollywog or coon ornament in a Christmas display of an East 17th
'Africa Uploaded'
These photographs (above and below) by South African Rushay Booysen (from Port Elizabeth in the Eastern
James Baldwin on racial oppression
The Black American writer, James Baldwin, draws parallels between oppression in South Africa, Algeria and the United States.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riYn1SozWo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The young Lagos, Nigeria-band Che and the Continuous Highlife Evolution's striking "Civil War." As the
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wJOxcTdYuk Last month, Mali's trio SMOD (consisting of DJ Sam, Ousco and Donski) released a second
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNFRVmtz1GA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African artist Lesego Rampolokeng, who grew up in Soweto, performing his "Fela Sermon" live
Happy Thanksgiving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccj2BH25c0I A few of us live in the United States, so we thought we should act
Some Other Kenya
Young Kenyans are not cynical, detached brand obsessed hedonists and want to take a personal stake in the affairs of the country.
Wedding Announcements
I needed an excuse to post that picture and this audio since. [audio=http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-1711102m46snob.mp3] Via David Lane.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI&w=500&h307&rel=0] Yeh, we do politics even when we dancing. And we have a thing for David
Invictus is not a country
Writer Imraan Coovadia, on lit magazine n+1's blog, writing about the tenplate for "the South African
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrQCRxD-u4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Rapper Young Kay is "a leader of the younger urban music scene in Malawi." [via
Saving Darfur
More than a year later these lines--written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction
Fela in the Big Apple
In the mid-1980s, Fela Kuti and his band, then in their prime, came to play in New York City.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA23GnvAXWQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Yuri Da Cunha is a household name in Angola,and is on his way to becoming
Do you know Omar al Bashir?
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan’s president.
What's "a native African"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxrLiqsXSQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Even if you don't care about boxing. On sports network ESPN's their "analysts" Chris Broussard
The African childhoods of white expats
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?