Just like in a science fiction movie
Black South Africans’ concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is publisher of Africa is a Country and on the tenured faculty of The New School. He edits the substack, Eleven Named People.
Jonas Savimbi is a video game star
No surprise that the dead Angolan rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, is a video game character; in life he was a media mastermind.
TIME Magazine and the “Africa is Rising” Meme
TIME Magazine has copied what The Economist did in 2011, and decided "Africa is Rising." Again.
Killing an African Warlord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdcL6FrQ6Y "Key & Peele" (the comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) are considered the next generation
#Elections2012
Americans vote today--or more to the point it is the "most important election in the world"
My favorite things from the last six months
Art South Africa me asked to pick my “Best Six;” basically my “favorite (six) things from the last six months.”
A voice that is incessantly in exile
South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin’s life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.
Film Africa (1): ‘The Beautiful Game’
This documentary film about football in Africa is actually not that terrible once you get past the
Jakes Gerwel and “the intellectual home of the left”
The fate of the University of the Western Cape, set up for coloureds, radicalized by black consciousness and from where the ANC prepared to govern.
What joy sounds like in German
Bonus music break: Abdullah Ibrahim, John Tchicai, Gato Barbieri, Barre Phillips and Makaya Ntshoko performing live on German public television in 1968.
The cliché about ‘struggle photography’
Cedric Nunn’s photography reflects the complex emotions of his black South African subjects, their humanity, dignity, in very personal terms.
Friday Bonus #MusicBreak
Yes, I've been listening to pop music a lot. You get work done and don't have
That time Rick Ross filmed a music video in a Lagos slum
Can a rap music video do better than some journalism in showing the real, unvarnished existence of ordinary Nigerians?
Yasiin Bey plays a mbira …
This was done for GQ Magazine. He also raps half-heartedly. I suppose, we should be "tril(led)."
My favorite photographs N°6: Stanley Lumax
Stanley Lumax (born in New Jersey, US where his parents, Ghanaian immigrants, settled) lives in Brooklyn.
10 African films to watch out for, N°2
'Grand comme le Baobab' ("Tall as the baobab tree") is a film told through the voice of