Take The A Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRbEhLj540 I've recently taken on a new daily commute from Bed-Stuy to Harlem via the A
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Winter List: Festivals in Southern Africa
While some in the virtual AIAC office have been putting together their summer lists, I thought
Reading List: Lily Saint
The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she’s been reading.
Cargoland
Romuald Hazoumé reminds us that like the perishing oil reserves being plumbed in Africa and around the world, water may soon also be fiercely fought over.
Wet Hot African Summer
We’ve scoured the web to bring you the best and worst romance, adventure, intrigue, and kinky fantasies Africa has to offer.
Credit Credit Art
The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London’s “Festival of the World with Mastercard.”
Summer in Paris
In what may be the last in a while of my posts highlighting the latest in French music culture, here’s a list of tunes for the northern summer.
More than one specter haunts South Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5J-i1U6PXQ This week, the World Bank issued a report, South Africa Economic Update: Inequality of Opportunity.
Africa Tumblrs: microblogs for lazy readers
Top photo tumblrs, not in any particular order, that Kola thinks you should be following if you have any interest in Africa.
The Summer List
For our traveling readers , here are a list of Africa-related exhibitions and readings this summer taking place in a wide range of cities around the world.
Summer in the City
The pick of summer 2012’s shows and parties in New York City.
Family Matters
Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
Lesotho gets the Kristof Treatment
Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.
Silent Elections
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from
Chop Cassava
Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.
What Happened to the African Renaissance?
Last week’s assaults on the tombs of saints, scholars and prominent ancestors in Timbuktu punctuated a long, leaden moment in Mali’s crisis.