Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic ‘greatest hits’ and childhood wonder on film.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Photography. Alec Soth
Michael and Dominique, Detroit, Michigan. From Soth's series "Sleeping by the Mississippi."
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed
'Julius Malema sets the cultural agenda'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kUhrBGVS8&w=600&h=369] The third season of "90 Plein Street," a scripted series about the travails of a
Music Break. Booker T. Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIB6g9uay2U Booker T. Jones on the keyboard with Jim James (of My Morning Jacket fame) singing
“I don’t go for third terms”
By Elliot Ross Kinnah Phiri is a hero of Malawian football. As a player, he was
Uganda’s Guantánamo
If you’re accused of ‘terrorism’ in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.
Photography. Nana Kofi Acquah
Ghana. Here.
Occupy Africa
http://youtu.be/FnCV2tlsDqU How do Africans--ground zero for resource extraction by the world's 1%--feel about the now global
Viva Kinshasa
One of the most exciting films to come out of the continent recently is the Congolese
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition
5 for le weekend. "Propaganda" one of a series of songs/videos made by The King's Will --one
Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian philosopher, talks about coming out as gay.
Music Break. X Plastaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzUH_Hdm-iQ Nice work by Tanzanian crew X Plastaz, with some help of Fid Q, Bamba Nazar
The films of Sarah Maldoror
Maldoror on filmmaking: “To make a film means to take a position … I make films so that people—no matter what race or color they are—can understand them.”
Woyzeck on the Highveld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvUK3GJdOHk In case you were too young to attend William Kentridge's original version of the early
Music Break. Alabama Shakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVSUH6_oBY I have a student (born in Texas) who insists he won't travel to or through
Chris Martin’s Brain
Coldplay’s “Paradise” music video is set in South Africa. The video is mostly is an antiquated perception of the country held by many in the West.
'My Africa is in the dark'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07TzARpqxU Malian rapper Mokobe ripped into French perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain’s comments about "hard working blacks" in
Gaddafi’s white African mercenaries
Muammar Gaddafi relied extensively on mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa to secure his rule. It is usually assumed they’re black Africans. It turns out a lot of them come from South Africa. And they’re white.