Africa Is a Country

Picture the Children

Picture the Children

By
Sean Jacobs


In December 2009 the photographer Emmanuel Andre and filmmaker Stephanie Wang Breal went on a trip to South Africa as part of the charity, Room 13 to teach photography to young children at two schools; in Soweto outside Johannesburg and Botshabelo in the Free State Province. Andre and Wang Breal made a book, documentary and exhibition (the pictures have already been exhibited at the Austrian Cultural Center in New York City)–under the title ‘Ubuntu” (I know it’s not a terribly original title) based on the trip.

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Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.