'Political Art'
Negar Azimi, in Frieze Magazine, on what the ascendency of 'political art' means for art's actual
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Jonathan Jansen’s Burden
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
Flying Overseas
http://youtu.be/Wd6NxkKCVI8 I am not cool like Theophelius London. I don't wear nice, patterned shirts. Solange Knowles*
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
No One Will Remember The Book Cover
I received my copy of this year's Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love in
Scarlet Lion
The American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Glenna Gordon, talks on five photographers who influenced her work.
"You no longer need your calculators to go for lunch in Harare"
As 42 opposition activists were facing treason charges in Zimbabwe for watching video footage of the
'Moore Street'
http://vimeo.com/10523895 "Moore Street" is a single tracking shot filmed on Dublin's famous Moore Street with members
Viva Amilcar Cabral
Paris-based rap group MC Malcriado–captures Cabral’s appeal to the new generation.
'Tales from the Sahel'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qov8Fng3-hA This coming Friday Maal and British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah will begin their UK tour of
Sahara Reporters
Last December I met the impressive Omoyele Sowore, founder of Nigerian online news site, Sahara Reporters.
'Vote for Umblerra'
Probably to deal with the stresses associated with next month general elections scheduled for next month--there's
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvuCCUkCRRo The video for Dutch singer Ntjam Rosie's song "In Need" featured in the latest episode
'The Black Image In An Era Of Globalization'
My department at The New School is co-hosting a two-day conference on "Re-Mixed and Re-Mastered: Defining
There shall be satire for all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjhoTvo5lM Recently Al Jazeera English's media review show, Listening Post, did a breathless profile of South
Google Mandela
You know what Nelson Mandela was trying to calculate in the image embedded above, right? While
The History of 'South African' Cinema
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXuqzqFG8o The Johannesburg filmmaker Cedric Sundstrom has been working on a documentary film on the history
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpgVXEBPSA The video for Gil Scott Heron and Jamie X's "I'll Take Care of U," from
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.
Tidal Waves Goes South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9kJbnoPtI Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money--what else do they do?--gets our