Allison Swank If you thought that a children’s film could escape the exaggerated eye roll of this cultural critic, then think again. I found the 2005 animated film Madagascar, to be as problematic as any live action adult flick – if not more – so simply for the fact that it’s promoting a “West and the […]
Apparently President Lyndon Johnson, known for his support of Rhodesia (and paradoxically for signing the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in the United States), had a big part in the origins of modern humanitarianism in the United States. Writing in The New Yorker reporter Philip Gourevitch recounts an order from Johnson to his Undersecretary of State as […]
When sleepless I often find myself browsing through time and space, moving from Johannesburg’s CBD to Ouagadougou’s boulangeries and back to Maputo’s fish market, watching the streets in Accra, Bamako and Cairo. Over at City One Minutes they’re steadily building a kaleidoscopic library of city lives – each life divided into twenty-four one minute portraits, […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3OoeAeZM5Q&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The opening episode of the new series of “The Simpsons” features a convoluted plotline where the character Krusty the Clown ends up in the Hague tried for war crimes. This is a clip from the episode. As the South African blogger Chris Roper summarizes it (in an equally convoluted blog post): “[At The Hague] […]
The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town is one of South Africa's great moral leaders.
Die Antwoord's magnetism (or repulsion) lies in the way they combine clichés about race with those of gender and sexuality.
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
Two years later, Barack Obama's election as US President still influence cultural production on the continent.
The United Nations just made public a report about human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997.
Bono and Ali Hewson, his wife, wants to revitalize apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa by manufacturing the clothes from their brand in China and Peru.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX6vbHWUyhQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the remix of the song “Champion,” the tune by Nigerian reggae fusion artist, Pype, this time featuring other Nigerian heavyweights Dagrin, Vector, Naeto C, Sasha and GT.
Nigerian director and producer, Ade Adepegba, speaking ahead of the new film festival, Nollywood Now–apparently the first entirely dedicated to the genre–that takes place in London from 6-12 October: Nigerians are the largest group of Africans living in the UK, and the majority of them live in London … Nigerian films still hold their strongest […]