Early last year, the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, Bloomington announced that it would publish a scholarly and peer-reviewed journal called “Black Camera.” The first issue is out and contains articles from South African media scholar, Keyan Tomaselli (from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban) and Eileen Julien, a comp lit professor at Indiana […]
Bhekumuzi Luthuli was the foremost exponent of Maskandi music. Internationally Paul Simon has borrowed from maskandi for his "Graceland" in the 1980s. So does Vampire Weekend.
The 1884 and 1885 meeting in Berlin of Euro-American powers to divide up the riches and territories of Africa has a new edition.
The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and write two totally different stories for his paper: Which Zimbabwe was he writing about?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wlh_HF2Y8E&w=600&h=373] By now you’ve seen some version of this footage–in this case from a South African TV channel, ETV–of the events earlier today when Julius Malema, the leader of the ANC’s Youth League, kicked a BBC journalist, Jonah Fisher, out of an ANC YL press conference for interrupting him. Malema was there to talk about […]
This is sick. Free download. HT: Will Youmans
With few exceptions, I usually celebrate South African photographers. Among them is Pieter Hugo, whose most recent work, “Nollywood”– a series of portraits recreating what for Hugo represents “archetypical characters” from the southern Nigerian film industry–opens tonight (from 6:00 to 8:00 pm) at Yossi Milo Gallery in Manhattan (525 West 25th Street). Anyway, not everyone […]
[vodpod id=Video.3381102&w=450&h=370&fv=] Jon Stewart, on last night’s “The Daily Show,” unpacks the maverick politics of John McCain, who is engaged in a tough re-election bid against a Tea Party candidate in Arizona and has been flip-flopping on his positions to gain traction with that crowd. To make his point Stewart throws in a Zimbabwe reference […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zciWUOrIUqo&w=480&h=295] My colleagues at The New School, The Yes Men, punks Shell last week.
There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hCD6BuAik&w=480&h=295] Senegal’s President, Abdoluaye Wade, hired North Koreans to built a 50 meter high monument–at exhorbitant cost–to celebrate his country’s 50 years of independence. Oh and he’ll make some of the profits from tourists visiting the monument to line his own pocket. His people want to know what’s to celebrate. Among those siding with Wade […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKO1O676A0&w=480&h=295] Sudanese voters go to the polls from Sunday, 11 April through 13 April. The election results seems a foregone conclusion. Omar Al-Bashir will probably win given his control of state media, opposition parties are boycotting the elections and one of the opponents with a decent chance of challenging Bashir, the Southern Sudanese Yasir Arman, […]