The Global Imagination of James Baldwin
An interview with Rich Blint, a James Baldwin scholar. Biggest takeaway: Baldwin lamented the fragile human impulse for categorization.
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
The Bronx, Ghana
From a New York Daily News story (from earlier this year) about Twi (Ghanaian language) courses
The Best African Movie
The Congolese film, Viva Riva, is no high-minded, French-funded “cinema” — it’s a gritty gangster film.
Journalism in Ethiopia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0yIgGGtT0
Sarah Palin is going to Sudan
The main reaction to Palin is to mock her, but the problem is someone like her got those close to the most powerful office globally. That should scare us.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0nq5nGvPU&w=560&h=349] As a bonus, see also the 10-minute video for "Clap" also off "W.A.R.," below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_iDZbSZ3I
'The Most Phenomenal Finale'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcXYZMYkKKI I don't watch much rugby these days, but the final moments of the cup final
Music Break
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/24394476 w=580&h=324] The new music video for "Drip Dry" by the Johannesburg hipsters Dirty Paraffin. The
'Short Cut'
http://youtu.be/ubz387K2XL0 The trailer for the feature film "Short Cut" (to be directed by Norman Maake) about
Street Photographer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxFJgqicZw&w=560&h=349] Charlie Ahearn's new documentary of Brooklyn photographer Jamal Shabazz screening on June 26 at the
Andrew Dosunmu's 'Restless City'
I recently missed out on seeing a special screening (at BAM in Brooklyn) of "Restless City,"
'African Air'
Georgr Steinmetz's Africa. Watch it here. More on Steinmetz here.
An Ordinary Killing
Riveting piece of journalism in this weekend's New York Times Magazine as well as an accompanying
Out of Africa
Vanity Fair's June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3P_mYAkhg Mayer Hawthorne featuring guitarist Dennis Coffey.
'Three soldiers from Somalia'
I reread that infamous 2010 New Yorker profile. of Gil Scott Heron earlier today. I was
Goksin Sipahioglu
One of the highlights of a recent trip to Istanbul--dominated by run-ins with operatives of a
'More Time'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL1rmcI-eY&w=560&h=349] Linton Kwesi Johnson exhorting us to slow down a bit.
Africa Day
The Very Best--a collaboration of Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit--has a new mixtape. It came out a few
Perspective on 2011 SA Local Elections
If you're tired of the nonsense published in The New York Times or on the BBC