The world’s media and Angola’s elections
The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iverlIH__h8 Another ten music videos that we've been playing a lot recently. The first one above.
Big Frizzle’s ‘Africa’
This music video for Big Frizzle's 'All Black Everything', produced by London-based media house GlobalFaction made
The trouble with South Africa’s middle class
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
10 African films to watch out for, N°2
'Grand comme le Baobab' ("Tall as the baobab tree") is a film told through the voice of
A certain Israeli psyche
Israel’s Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
The Dutch ‘King of Africa’
In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.
The fear of being a terrible writer
A South African writer gets invited to the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. Her main takeaway: writing is an act of faith; an ancient form of prayer.
My favorite photographs N°5: Abraham Oghobase
Born in Lagos, photographer and artist Abraham Oghobase still lives in the Nigerian metropolis. His work
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°17
Rounding up some music videos we've been tweeting over the past weeks, this is your Friday
Zanele Muholi’s “Mo(u)rning” | Exhibition
On Thursday, July 26, the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town had an opening: Mo(u)rning. Photographic
Ghanaian film posters and viewing cultures
The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.
10 African films to watch out for
http://youtu.be/tLyhZlgWIpM This is a random selection of ten films we don't know much about, yet, but
The Vershtunkende Toronto Zoo
‘Vershtunkende’ is a Yiddish adjective loosely translated as ‘darned,’ ‘exasperating’, ‘maliciously idiotic’. It is not a nice word to use for either a person or thing.
My favorite photographs N°4: Nana Kofi Acquah
My grandmother had a pub where wayfarers, fishermen, their wives, officers and anybody who had trouble
Paulo Flores’s Ex-Combatentes
The Angolan singer’s new album deals with war in the widest sense: war with the self, war with family, neighbors, friends.
This sea shall be uprooted
Makoko, in Lagos, with over 100, 000 residents, is viewed as a shantytown. There’s more to it. This is the destruction of a community.
The most interesting bits
Kaleidoscope magazine has done an “Africa” issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.
Il Manifesto
Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.
On Safari
If you're wondering where we are (if you don't read through to the end of posts)