In December 2009 the photographer Emmanuel Andre and filmmaker Stephanie Wang Breal went on a trip to South Africa as part of the charity, Room 13 to teach photography to young children at two schools; in Soweto outside Johannesburg and Botshabelo in the Free State Province. Andre and Wang Breal made a book, documentary and […]
This may yet become a weekly award on AIAC. The inaugural Waka Waka Award–name in honor of Shakira–goes to Jack Burkman, “GOP strategist,” who recently decided to insult Ethiopians and Nigerians in a Fox Business News studio “discussion” about closing the United States Post Office–work that out. Watch it here.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADTUDx8-Pbg&w=500&h=307&rel=o] Last Sunday against Chelsea, Sunderland’s Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan scored his team’s second goal on the way to a 3-0 win over the defending English Premier League champions. As usual Gyan did his victory dance (you could not have missed it during the 2010 World Cup whenever he scored which was often). Gyan, of […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTVDDrUS4Y&w=500&=307&rel=0] I’d be interested in people’s reading of this short video spotted on Youtube, above, which claims to educate Nigerians about their “perceptions” of each other. Since I am no expert on things Nigerian, I asked Jeremy Weate of Naijablog what he thought of it. On his blog he posted the following: “… For me, […]
“One in five Africans is Nigerian and they certainly represent throughout the Diaspora. Much of the time, however, the over 150 million Nigerians in the world are unfairly associated with 419 email scams,” reported The Atlanta Post last month. So to counter this stereotype–and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence this year , […]
The author, a German journalist new to South Africa, writes about her first impressions and experiences, especially with local whites; so different from anything she knew or experienced before.
GOOD, a magazine with a vague purpose (it is supposed to be “dedicated to social causes,” figure that out), has done something interesting: It just published its fall issue, which also features “… a COLORS 22-page guide to 53 unreported, awesome things to try, see, hear, eat & learn about in Africa’s 53 countries. Through […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZyd-vDzKlg&w=500&h=307&rel=0] I am still trying to figure out what Kate Bush‘s 1979 tune “Egypt” and its video (part of a Christmas Special in the UK) is all about. I Newsreel, orientalism, and an odd plot (Kate gets threatened by what looks like Egyptian government goons at the end? Is this a protest against authoritarianism?), doesn’t […]
Steve Gordon‘s series of photographs of Clifton Beach (in this case Fourth Beach) on Cape Town’s Atlantic Coast. (Click on the photograph for a larger view.) See more here.
New York City artist Maria Buyondo grew up in Russia and Sweden, the child of a Russian mother and an Ugandan father.
This photograph of Soccer City, the venue for the opening and closing games of the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg by the young Johannesburg photographer Sabelo Mlangeni, is included in the ambitious exhibit: “Afropolis. City, Media, Art: Urbanization Africa, now showing through March 11 at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany. The exhibit focuses on Cairo, Lagos, […]
The film "Limbo" covers the frustated life and dreams of Sudanese immigrant and trained architect, Issam.