Africa for Africans
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States were not only locked in an ideological struggle with each other, but also competed with an anticolonial vision of modernity, an ideology which is still influential today.
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Ginga, Banga, and focus
How the Palancas Negras won the hearts of Angolan football fans.
Family ties
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.
Soviet cinema and African filmmaking
Abderrahmane Sissako’s oblique suggestion of what a ‘socialist friendship’ might be in his first film, "October" (1993) set in a then-declining Soviet Union.
Hip as Nationalist Project
Kuduru as an effort by politically connected Angolan elites to to package a fun and edgy dance born in Angola as soft power.
A seca quando chove
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
Searching for a ‘blood-diamond bazaar’
Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.
Music Break
[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
Moçambique Popular
Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.
Found Objects, No. 13
…Angolan liberation movement, the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, who that same year formed Angola’s
Football Underdogs and Politricks
The fortunes of Sudan and Equatorial Guinea at AFCON 2012. The latter especially, a squad cobbled together by naturalizing players from Brazil and Spain.
Africa is a Science Fiction Superpower
A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.
The abundance of black fashion
Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iverlIH__h8 Another ten music videos that we’ve been playing a lot recently. The first one above.
The indelible mark of the mbira
The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.
Our African Cup of Nations 2013 predictions
…league pin is 9132137935284.) Group A Angola | Palancas Negras (Sable Antelopes) | Ranked 83 in