[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=aHkRx1IKlOg&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Ice Cube was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week. Of course to promote his latest venture, what seems like a very unfunny TV comedy with a laugh track, “Are We There Yet.” But then after all the chit chat, he dropped a verse from “Today was a good day.” Still fresh. […]
Chris Abani's musings on telling African stories gets at just about everything Sonja thinks about as she encounters "Africa" every day, and then attempt to write about it.
The first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-a_rDH9c8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The football will be great, we’ll talk tactics and football history all month long, make silly predictions on who’ll win the cup, and the fans will have a good time (though most won’t be able to afford the tickets), but many South Africans know that the benefits from the World Cup to the average […]
Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.
Last Saturday, a rugby playoff match in South Africa was switched from the white suburbs of Pretoria to a stadium in Soweto. The move was required because the stadium in Pretoria was needed for the soccer World Cup. Organizers FIFA would not allow the pitch to be turned into a swamp by hard running rugby […]
Lara Pawson's blog post about the way elites and media in the West talk, write and act about the African continent and its people, though hardly to them, is worth reposting here.
[slideshow] South African corporates has always been on the side of right. Literally. Take this recent case study:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfsM4yBZps&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It will get ridiculous over the next month. For now the price goes to goes to the Australian media company, Optus. This is the concept for the ad, above: “… To prepare for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the Australian football team was involved in a secret training camp. Unbeknown to anyone, the team […]
For the next month we'll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There'll be lots of "African" themes.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_HP8mgT8A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for Dutch hip hop group Zwart Licht‘s single “Vanaf Nu.” Via @Mustafa Maluka: “This track is my anthem for the moment. Ghanaian diaspora in Amsterdam doing it well.” * I am providing a literal translation. I think “vanaf nu” also means “now.”
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11738776 w=500&h=281] Beautifully shot short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving market in Ajelogo, a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, was destroyed by local authorities. The film is told through the perspective of one of the residents. The director is Charles “Stretch” Ledford, a University of Miami communications student and working […]