Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
‘The Worst Place To Be Gay’
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Libya’s Race Problem
Colonel Gaddafi’s alleged use of “black mercenaries,” has put the question of race in Libya’s revolution front and center.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Daxf8GDa5c The music video for the remix of Brooklyn rock singer Tamar Kali's "Pearl" featuring the
Design Short
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhzd1vgtBk Time to promote some continental filmmakers again. The young ones. The organizers of Design Indaba,
Music Break
[vodpod id=Video.5675225&w=500&h=411&fv=] Amoeba is a landmark record store in Berkeley (on Telegraph). Now they have branches
Dictators and Pop Stars
A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.
'South Africa, 1965 to Now,' at MoMA
During the oppressive years of apartheid rule in South Africa, not all artists had access to
The Smiling Faces of Young Africans
When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture’ any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke’s film “Kengere” – using puppets – tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda’s civil war.
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country’s public (and popular) life.
Everybody take out your bicycles
An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.
Gay in Africa
Two photographers – unrelated – highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.
The View from Freetown
An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone’s capital.
Madagascar at the Oscars
A French filmmaker witnesses a “the turning of the dead people” ceremony in Madagascar. Amazingly, the film explores this event without necessarily exoticizing it.
The Murder of David Kato
This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu’s murder.