African Immigrant Life in New York City
Students in my Media and Africa seminar at The New School create short video profiles of African immigrant experiences in New York City. Here I highlight a few of the striking ones.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Music Break. Simphiwe Dana
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829dg3GN7aM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Does it matter whether we know where a music video was shot? Probably not, but
Akon makes no sense
The Senegalese-American R&B singer, Akon, imagines himself some kind of African political leader and regularly opines on comparisons between African countries and the US. We wished he didn’t.
The Indians are coming
[embed width="700"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPNYLcj5OWA&w=500&h=307&rel=0[/embed] This is an ad to promote the wares of Willow TV—the California-based portal for
Music Break
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfu8z8_fresk-prenons-l-afrique-en-main_music The guys from Fresk have opinions, but we will go into that another day. Until
Giant Killers
[The wealthy Congolese club and current African Champions League cup holders] TP Mazembe Englebert have produced
The Fire Next Time
Some Brooklyn business. You know I live here. Read it here.--Sean Jacobs
Do you need another rap film?
Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?
Music Break
http://vimeo.com/17713639 Femi Kuti and his band strip it down for La Blogothèque, some hours before they
The World According to Facebook
Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, writes that he wanted to see "how geography
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKFpx6zmYo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] “Après Tintin au Congo j’ai lu Sarkozy à Dakar / 50 minutes d'insultes... accusé à
The constructions of whiteness in South Africa
The role documentary film in producing memory as it intersects with contemporary constructions of understanding apartheid and this post-apartheid period.
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu.
What do leftists make of Wikileaks?
Not everyone is so taken with what Wikileaks has wrought. I'd be curious to hear what
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mld7eSaydI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Psychedelic funksters Sly and the Family Stone are making a comeback of sorts (although recent
T.I.A. (Thrift Shop Edition)
Myrtle Ave, Fort Greene in Brooklyn.