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

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By
Sean Jacobs

This is to let you know that we’ll be taking a break from blogging to catch up with our regular lives from August 13 till September 5–that, we’ll be back the day after Labor Day.

This is a good time to read through our archive (just read backwards), and, more importantly, like our Facebook Page, and follow our various Twitter accounts: Sean, Brett, Tom, Boima, Loren, Dan, Dylan, Sonja (we’re  hoping she’ll come back someday and blog again) and Herman (who should blog more).

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.