Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNE-5WUtSE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] A good way to tide you over till Sunday's World Cup final is to listen
The graphic first 50 years of Congo’s independence
A graphic novel written and illustrated by a group of Congolese graphic artists, take stock of a half-century of independence for the DRC.
How The Mighty Have Fallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrSakxaGFz4 Two of South Africa's most talented musicians of the last 30 years, Robbie Jansen (1949-2010),
Black Babies
Via Art of Kawaii.
Brussels is Africa
[slideshow] Our man in Brussels, Tom de Vriendt, sent on information on some Africa-themed exhibitions on
Black Economic Empowerment in your dreams
I saw this ad on TV a few times during my recent trip down to South
Time and Time again
Alex Perry’s work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that’s allowed when you write about Africa.
Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko’s mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
We are the world
Despite its high cheesiness quotient and half of the teams featured in the video already out
Thank You Ghana Black Stars!
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/13010025 w=500&h=307] Ghana's Black Stars was on a run to make history--to become the first African
Music Fridays: Tinashe
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32pplDyPlo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My friend, Wendy Willems, former Londoner now teaching media studies at Wits University, pointed me
Esto contigo Brasil
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1bVpbu8bXQ&w=500&h=307&rel=] The largest African country in the world just crashed out of the quarterfinals of the
Africa on Film: Out of Africa
Our film critic, Allison Swank, rewatches the 1985 film. Her verdict: “Out of Africa” is a media nostalgia piece for a time when whites ruled in Africa.
Black Star Jam
Tomorrow Ghana will try to the impossible: become the first African nation to go to the
Obrigado, Pelé
A short film imagines what if Pele, who can claim to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), scored his final international goal against Argentina, Brazil’s greatest rival.
El Negrito
Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: “… a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body.”
Just add some Africa
http://vimeo.com/12671709 An ad for multinational Orange to grab customers in a Middle Eastern country for some
Hold On To Your Hat
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL3tRBZv7QA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African football fans (well, boosted by corporates) have brought the world the plastic vuvuzelas.