AfricaIs aCountry

Janus Faced

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Janus Faced

By
Sean Jacobs

We’re closing shop from tomorrow, December 24th, until January 4th, 2011.

Thanks for a great year supporting this site.

Meanwhile, follow us on twitter. Because if you don’t, you miss half the good stuff anyway. Some of us–Brett, Herman, Sonja and myself–have a twitterfeed running on the right-hand side of this page. (Just click on the @Twitter text and you’ll be directed to our individual Twitter pages. Others, like Boima, can be reached directly on Twitter.

We’ll update our respective feeds regularly between now and then.

Until 2011.

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.

Reading List: Barbara Boswell

While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom.

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?

An annual awakening

In the 1980s, the South African arts collective Vakalisa Art Associates reclaimed time as a tool of social control through their subversive calendars.

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.