America? Begging in Nigeria!
A white woman begging in Lagos's popular Mushin Market. Turns out it is a performance piece.
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Africa Represent
If the criteria is the number of African players each team had on the field, you need to root for Inter Milan in the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final.
Weekend Links
Things I have read quickly, seen or watched, listened to, been forwarded, did not really have the time to think about properly, here for your reading pleasure: * On Freedom Day, last Tuesday, South Africa’s government released this picture of the country’s president, Jacob Zuma, taking an Aids test. He tested negative. (The test was […]
Rankin does South Africa
British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on 'his own personal journey' to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.
Afrikaners
The first group of people who called themselves Afrikaners were Orlams people, who would be called coloured in South Africa today.
Teargas
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6otC_a_ZY&w=480&h=295] The video for the first single, “Go Away,” off the album “Dark or Blue” by South African rappers, Teargas. Ma se kind. Good popcorn music.
Capitalists Pigs
I’d help make these guys rich. Us Versus Them
Toto meets Mango Groove
FIFA and the South African organizers of the World Cup unveiled the official World Cup tune: It's called "Waka Waka."
Negro Steel Wool
This is appropriate in Lebanon.
Have another Coke and smile Roger Milla
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3Q54rPjQw&w=480&h=295] Having stripped the Somalian singer K’Naan’s protest song, “Waving Flag” of any meaning, Coco Cola now sets about to trivialize African football history. As reported by Steve Bloomfield on his blog, Africa United, Coke’s new commercial, “History of Celebration,” reduces the legacy of Cameroon’s historical run in the 1990 tournament in Italy to striker […]
Photography: Delphine Diaw Diallo
The subjects in photographer Delphine Diaw Diallo’s series “Renaissance,” are portrayed as “… heroes of ancient tales where the beauty and violence of reality are confronted in a parallel trajectory and they are one. The protagonists featured in Renaissance are spiritually strong, beautiful and full of life.” Dripbook.