Blackwater’s “Rwanda”
The fantasies of Blackwater, the Michigan firm of mercenaries and as contractor to imperial powers. Also, how it employs Africa as a rhetorical device to get more business.
6436 Article(s) by:
Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
Where is contemporary African art? Not at Bonhams
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the
New public TV series from South Africa: “I am Woman”
Starting on April 1, South Africa's public TV channel SABC3 has been running a weekly series
Friday Music Break, N°10
http://youtu.be/2tig5g9jV5Y British based Nigerian rapper Modenine starts off our weekly Friday Music Break. Here's four more.
Afropolitan Divas
Numbi, a gathering space for the Somali diaspora artists in the UK, expands its focus to include poetry and music from elsewhere in East Africa and elsewhere at a showcase in East London.
The future of Françafrique
Is it France’s interests to reform its unequal, exploitative relationship with Africans?
Radio Freedom’s Afrikaans Service
Learning that Radio Freedom, the exiled ANC’s radio service, broadcast in Afrikaans, further undermines the idea of the language as belonging to the oppressor.
Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an internet café, then another saying Mbembe was trying to find an internet café with Skype, then another saying that he was trying to find an internet café with Skype in a part of the city where there wasn’t a power-cut.
Livetweet Recap: NYT (and Vogue Italia) “Rebrands Africa” (again)
From a series of tweets I did on the New York Times story "Rebranding Africa" which
The elephant in the room
The DJ’s, Venus X and Boima, talk about their approach to music, but also about their run-ins with tastemaker Diplo, who has shaped popular music tastes globally.
Coca-Cola can’t copyright colour: the art of Sokari Douglas Camp
"Coca-Cola Bird" stands facing the corner of the gallery, half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition, oily red paint spun across the bucket cocked over her head, the same brash color on the feathered tutu winding around her waist. Her chest sprouts sparkling empty bottles bearing the famous label, and familiar labile curves.
Uptown Sahel
Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO’s and other international organizations.
First as tragedy, then as farce
What is it with the conviction, held primarily in the West, that you can save yourself and the world (well, usually Africans) by shopping?
Congo Gold
Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: “In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect.”
Acoustic Guitar Break
We thought it would be nice to compile a Bonus Music Break centered on acoustic guitar
Africanos Latinos
http://youtu.be/fvCvNwzsYvE Latin America and the Caribbean haven't gotten enough attention on this site. We're going to
Africa as Science Fiction
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
An Ode to Oshodi Market
Old Oshodi highlighted the complexity of the city, showcasing the ingenuity of the people of Lagos in their use of the informal market in making a living.
Somewhere between folklore, memoir and modern fiction
Reading Yewande Omotoso’s novel “Bom Boy,” just when you think you’ve figured the characters out, the author opens them up a little more, and our perceptions change.
We’ve always been migrating
A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.