Branding The New Black
Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Found Object, No. 11
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwOqtiVVCI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Corrected: A rare film clip (there must be more where this came from), posted on Youtube
I'm Gonna Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAFe_TnVsc No more "Down on My Knees." Nigerian-German singer Ayo's new--well at least one month old--single
The Black Portrait Symposium
Posing Beauty explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in
The Race Card
Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl6ZcSJ_KY Tidal Waves (the "hardest working band in South Africa" - they really are) played a
'100% Liberian'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnjer2C6Zn4 African nationalism from an unlikely quarter; rapper I-20 from Ludacris-owned label, Disturbing Tha Peace. Great
The Youth of Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_qL0IXdKQ Old Master Boubacar Traoré (also known as Kar Kar, “the one who dribbles too much”)
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Df8yPn_bc&fs=1&hl=en_US] A little Luso Rap infatuation I've been harboring for a while has led me down
'Lost in Kinshasa'
Listen here.
Photography: Yamandú Roos
Security Guard, World Cup, 2010, Soweto, South Africa. More here.
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM4tQ_w__RM] The new video for Nigerian Afrobeat funkster Bantu's tune "I'm Waiting." It's part of the
Photography: Duran Levinson
Good biscuits at the UN social security forum at Cape Town International Convention Center, South Africa.
'Who’s Telling Our Story?'
Journalism in Africa: Who’s Telling Our Story? Friday, February 18, 2011 New York University Puck Building,
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmtFX-r-0p8 I have this track (and video) on repeat. The Sway Machinery featuring Malian singer Khaira
'First Time in Sudan Africa'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9OvmowfpD0 Another one of those videos I was forwarded over the break. It's become something of
Bwana Kitoko
If you’re passing through Brussels the next months and you haven’t seen Belgian painter Luc Tuymans’s
'The Legend of Polokwane'
No not the guy on the left. The music of DJ MO-LAUDI. Listen here.
Hip Hop is a Database
[vodpod id=Video.5574372&w=500&h=411&fv=] ...The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of