The paradox of our engagement with technological apparatus
How can bodily experiences be shared, asks British Nigerian director Shola Amoo in his short film, “Touch.”
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#WhiteHistoryMonth: Thank God, you were born white
On one of the last days of AIAC's first #WhiteHistoryMonth, I found myself getting increasingly annoyed in the queue to board the last flight from Murtala Mohmammed International Airport, Lagos to Johannesburg. Behind me stood two South Africans, who were giggling and entertaining each other in a way that had they been ten, or in their teens, an accompanying adult would have asked them to take it down a notch.
What they don’t tell you about Stellenbosch
The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch’s black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: How Unexpected
From this week’s Washington Post Travel Section--"How unexpected: There was more modernity than I expected, such as extremey modern infrastructure (roads, etc.) in many places, although there is still poverty there. "
Let’s talk about #CancelColbert
Colbert’s satire is based in a smug ironic whiteness. It doesn’t mean I have to like it or can’t feel it’s problematic or alienating as a person of color.
The Expatriate
Ethiopian-American artist, Wayna, explores issues including police brutality, disenfranchisement, race and identity in her music.
The FBI’s Hustle
The contradictions of U.S.’s domestic and international policies manifested by its wars on drugs, terror, and the country’s Black communities.
Cricket in America
The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.
Africa is a Country Radio
On Groovalizacion. The host is Chief Boima, from his new base in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (check out his first post from there). The format is a monthly round up of audio treats from around Africa and its diaspora with occasional commentary from the community of writers from Africasacountry.com. The first episode went out this afternoon.
The “wisdoms” of Akon
When the Senegalese-American singer Akon is not claiming to provide electricity around the continent, he gives interviews. The latest, to Larry King, is a train wreck because of Akon’s reactionary’s views. For those in the know, this is peak Akon.
Fela Kuti on Film
Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?
Belgium lives outside history
The writer, a Nigerian immigrant to Belgium, writes about her experience with racism, including as a town councillor.
Sex and the City meets Americanah
“An African City,” the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
Happy Africans
Pharrell Williams’s pop hit, “Happy,” is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?
Homophobia and hatred in Cameroon
Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.
Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
Breaking down self-imposed borders
Ten Harlem-based artists and ten Columbia University students work together for the month-long exhibition, “Bridging Boundaries: Redefining Diaspora.”
The trouble with #WhiteHistoryMonth is that it is not history yet
Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been "removed". This is five times the number when Bringing Them Home was written. More than a third of all removed children are Aboriginal – from 3% of the population. At the present rate, this mass removal of Aboriginal children will result in a stolen generation of more than 3,300 children in the Northern Territory alone.
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa’s violent history.
When Chinua Achebe went to Scandinavia in 1988
It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.