More than a year later these lines–written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction to Mahmood Mamdani’s “Saviors and Survivors,” a study of Darfur Now’s campaigns and the complex history of the Darfur conflict–is still worth repeating:
In the mid-1980s, Fela Kuti and his band, then in their prime, came to play in New York City.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA23GnvAXWQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Yuri Da Cunha is a household name in Angola,and is on his way to becoming an international star. He has taken the older Angolan genre of semba music, and modernized its appeal to urban youth. His lingering vocals combined with his fluid dance style has captured fans from Angola to Portugal. His combination of dance […]
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxrLiqsXSQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Even if you don’t care about boxing. On sports network ESPN’s their “analysts” Chris Broussard and Skip Bayless discusses comments by former boxer Bernard Hopkins that Manny Pacquiao does not want to fight African American fighters. Broussard then decides to break down “race.” Especially that of the only black fighter ever faced by Pacquiao, […]
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?
Journalist Maggie Fick is covering South Sudan’s self-determination referendum for the AP. She’s only one of hundreds of other reporters who have set up camp, for what The New York Times correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman described earlier this week as “Africa’s big divorce.” (Yes, he did.) Not surprisingly, the bulk of “foreign correspondent” reporting on the […]
Preview (and more information in French) of images from the exhibition, “The Ritual of the pose–Africa in black and white in the 1970s,” consisting of studio photographs by Malian photographer Malick Sidibe and his Senegalese counterpart Oumar Ly, now on show (till November 27th) at the Musée des Arts Derniers in Paris. The one above is […]
By Allison Swank One of the first of its kind out of West Africa, the new animated series, Bino and Fino, promises a refreshing look at a contemporary urban African family. The brother and sister duo live in a middle class home with their grandparents, who in the first episode (view below), explain what the […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUxzYbQQSo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for “Fairy Tale” by South African-based Mozambican band, 340ml. The video was shot in the Mozambican capital, Maputo.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQk_pWmisA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Folgers coffee’s 2009 TV commercial. H/T: JohnNess
In the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, novelist Norman Rush reviews V.S. Naipaul’s new book on African belief systems, “The Masques of Africa.” Naipaul, it seems, got very upset at how Africans threat some animals: Trying to figure out Naipaul’s foundational worldview is too hard for me. It’s a secret he […]