Reporter Janny Scott in The New York Times, and the author of “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” writing about Stanley Ann Dunham: The president’s mother has served as any of a number of useful oversimplifications. In the capsule version of Obama’s life story, she is the white mother from Kansas […]
“When It Hits You, You Feel No Pain”: A Conversation about Music and Politics Wednesday, April 27 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm Lang Cafe, The New School, 65 West 11th Street, NY, NY, 10003 65 West 11th Street New York, NY Music has power to move people’s bodies, but does it have power to move their […]
Les Nubians have a new album (it’s been on sale since yesterday). These are the videos for the singles “Afrodance” (above) and “Veuillez Veiller Sur Vos Reves” (below).
The war and conflict photographer Tim Hetherington started his career in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he did not just photograph war.
Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that's where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?
One of the leaders of Zimbabwe's opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.
In the last year fans of South African jazz had to contend with the passing of musicians Robbie Jansen, Ezra Ngcukana (in August 2010), Vincent Kolbe (in September 2010) and Hotep Idris Galeta. This weekend Duke Ngcukana, brother of Ezra and himself a musician and jazz educator of note, passed away. Read a news story about […]
“Skoonheid,” the new film by South African director Oliver Hermanus will be screened in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s edition of the Cannes Film Festival (starting next month). He is in good company. Check the Cannes site to see who else got invited. The film is also the first Afrikaans film to […]
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection by the middle and upper classes in wealthy districts of Johannesburg. It includes a watched-over street party and a visual catalogue of the garden sheds or ‘Wendy houses’ that guards sit in to defend the houses and properties of […]
H/T: Rich Flint
An unidentified man makes bricks in one of the photographs from photojournalist Ed Kashi‘s photo-essay “Madagascar” The series “… delves into environmental concerns, documenting the delicate balance between economic development and ecological preservation in the lush island nation.” The photographs are on display at the WFC Courtyard Gallery in Lower Manhattan till May 14. * […]