http://vimeo.com/24894177 All that stuff we could not blog–we have real jobs–or were too lazy to put up. First, up a rough cut of “Quel Souvenir,” a new film (currently in post-production) about the new Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline is screening on July 27 at the DocuClub in Manhattan. Here is the trailer. Here’s the description by the […]
Some rural flavor from Hambale, Zambia. Filmed by David Tree. H/T: Adrian Bischoff.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year’s Rwanda Film Festival going down this weekend and next week at the KWETU Film Institute in Kigali is an eclectic bunch (amongst many others, there is Na Wewe, Le Mec Idéal and Afrique en Marche). One of the documentaries I hope to see sometime […]
We liked the previous recent work by DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger. No surprise then the result of the two of them collaborating is dope. The track is lifted from the album we blogged about last year, but the video’s new. DJ Hamma says: “We shot it in August 2010. I was initially very disappointed with […]
The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.
The internets have been rightly outraged at a white couple, “Dave and Chantal,” who decided on a “colonial” (and Apartheid) theme at their wedding in South Africa complete with an all-black wait staff in red fezzes. Like it was a scene out of the film “Out of Africa.” It turns out the happy couple asked […]
Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe doing multiple film festival rounds over the last year. Born in 1986 in Mandima, Robert-Jan — and his family — left Mandima, the village in northeast Congo (then still Zaire) ten years later. A short interview with the director (in […]
African women work as domestics over the world. How have they responded to or organized to improve their conditions?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHTecgV9_M&w=600&h=373] My Brooklyn neighborhood is a center for Pulaar speakers in the United States. The community has its own association, a significant proportion of the local masjids’ membership, and plenty of great restaurants that provide food from countries like Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, and Mali. Baaba Maal and Duggy Tee get together on a […]
Baloji is back in North America, and while we’re a little late on the draw, you can still catch him in a few cities this summer. Two dates in Quebec (tonight and tomorrow night) and the final show in Los Angeles on July 16th. Here.
A film about former Liberian child soldier, Joshua Milton Blahyi, adds to his celebrity and his reputation as a skilled manipulator.
In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.