The Other African Election: Sarkozy K.O.’d
What does all that mean for French-African politics? It’s hard to tell what will next emerge from that fetid swamp.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Fighting Pop
Congolese/South African (via Belgium) musician Yannick Ilunga, AKA Iamwaves, has been rather busy lately. His group Popskarr, a new ‘electronic/Nu Disco/Misty Pop’ outfit, has just released a stylish single called Fighter; and as his alter ego Petite Noir he has released a mixtape for Okayafrica’s ‘Africa in Your Earbuds’ series (which earned him a tweet shout out from Questlove of The Roots) and a new video for his song 'Till We Ghosts.'
A French migration fairytale
A remarkable amount of new films in recent months have used migration, detention and illegal sea crossings as their subject matter.
The cinema of liberation
The film, “Come Back, Africa,” first released in 1959, challenged how white liberals imagined black people or tried to shape their struggles in South Africa.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°9
Your weekly #musicbreak roundup. Mokobe and Oumou Sangare pray for peace in Mali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqptS0Kt_Ns Yasiin Bey,
Art and assassination in Angola
A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola’s authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.
Exhibition. Cape Town in France
Cécile Mella (remember her portraits of the Cape Town ad world) will be showing her photography
Not the Caine Prize
Since 2004, Le Salon africain (part of the annual Geneva Book Fair) awards the Ahmadou Kourouma
No room for ambiguity
Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.
Documentary–‘I am Malawi’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6F553L17g 'I am Malawi' is a short documentary by Geert Veuskens and Pieter de Vos. (Part
Don’t Talk About Somebody’s Mama
Malians have little patience for Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali’s former president, deposed in a coup on 22 March.
Tintin’s Day in a Belgian Court
Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.
The geo-branding war
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide
Sunday Bonus Music Break, N°8
Since Friday's Special was reserved to Sierra Leone -- and for archival purposes -- here's your
David Cameron’s Libya Doctrine
Britain’s secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.
The magazine as Tumblr
Globetrotter’s organizing logic may be a bit elusive, but the content itself is often quite captivating.
Sierra Leone Independence Day
Freedom Day in South Africa. Togo Independence Day. And Sierra Leone's 51st Independence Day. That's all
The verdict on Charles Taylor
A comment on the enigmatic, and ambivalent, presence of rebel leader and former president, Charles Taylor, ten years after he left Liberia.
African Men
The video, “African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes,” made by an American NGO, is part of the “Brand Africa” discourse that’s all the rage now.
The value of a people and their social structure
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s film “Touki Bouki” is an excellent example of how the contemporary can be read through the (re)construction of myths and narratives from a collective memory.