The music video is not dead
An incendiary piece of video art, more like a short film--of raids, profiling and state terrorism--done
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Sleeping Dogs
The poetry of Ronelda Kamfer sheds light on the still marginalized lives of South Africa’s “brown communities.”
Africa’s World Cup
Binyavanga Wainaina and Teju Cole are among those on a panel discussing the historic 2010 World Cup to be held in South Africa; the first time on the continent.
‘Trade’ between Iran and Zimbabwe
[embed width="800]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFCSfP6mH0&w=480&h=295[/embed] The talks about trade opportunities between Iran and Zimbabwe during a visit to Zimbabwe
Film director Shelley Barry @ NYU
An Evening with Shelley Barry Wednesday, April 28, 2o1o At the next disTHIS!, South African filmmaker
The Final Countdown
For those doubting South African can host a successful World Cup, the country has a long history of successfully hosting big tournaments.
I don’t have money to buy US$6 million paintings
Marlene Dumas, the South African-born artist whose work is sought by important collectors, keeps a blacklist that prevents those she views as turning over her works too quickly from buying additional works by her and other news.
Bafana Bafana
Football historian Chris Bolsmann just sent me a note: "... If you want to buy the
Guru, 1963-2010
The brilliant rapper Guru, who also recorded as Gang Starr (with his music partner, the equally
Apartheid in Arizona
What's up with John McCain's home state? The state legislature has just passed an immigration law
Sign Language
I spotted this crude graffiti on a wall of a part-construction site on 12th Street in
Truth and Reconciliation
In Argentina members of that country's military dictatorship that conducted a "dirty war") against its people
Kon and Amir goes to Africa
Next week (April 26), Brooklyn's Kon and Amir will release "Off Track Vol III: Brooklyn, "
Vogue Africa
The photographer Mario Epanya wonders what a "Vogue Africa" magazine would look like. The pictures are
Timeless
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjddFpAp6z0&w=480&h=295] This blog does not waste any opportunities to post visuals of Mulatu Astatke performing. Via
The World of Tyler Perry
Whatever The New Yorker's rationale for commissioning a piece on Tyler Perry, the "critic-proof" producer and
Tribeca Film Festival
I am tired of doing this. Because it is getting predictable. The top-heavy and scattered Tribeca
The Full-Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8vhgCZhJ1g I am still on my pre-World Cup binge. Brazil remains odds on favorites to win
Apartheid is a museum no one visits
How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.
David Goldblatt @ The Jewish Museum
A major retrospective of David Goldblatt's photographs opens next month at the Jewish Museum on the