Weekend Special, July 23
* Philip Gourevitch, of The New Yorker, probably still healing from the mauling he got over
508 Articles by:
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.
Colonialism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHK308_MTiU&w=600&h=373] A satirical film made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. Worth seeing again. It
Flash Mob
http://youtu.be/5iIFqHMOE1g No it's not a protest. It's PR for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth
Spinning in Gauteng
http://vimeo.com/16724676 Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning
Mandela's heirs
http://vimeo.com/26538549 The documentary "Dear Mandela," about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban,
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town’s Cape Flats.
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
South Africa's first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between
Weekend Special, July 17
http://vimeo.com/24894177 All that stuff we could not blog--we have real jobs--or were too lazy to put
Ken's Song
http://vimeo.com/15422187 Some rural flavor from Hambale, Zambia. Filmed by David Tree. H/T: Adrian Bischoff.
White Wedding
The internets have been rightly outraged at a white couple, "Dave and Chantal," who decided on
Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town’s Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career – and sometime their lives – is prom, known as the matric ball.
Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa’s second city, Cape Town.
Africa is a Country
Must be our blog title. Someone named STONE decides to vent on The Hill's Congress Blog about
When Malcolm X went to Africa
“As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out.”
Naija, London
Photographer Liz Johnson Artur, first arrived in Peckham, London, 20 years ago to live. A neighborhood
Music Break
I forgot. I wanted to give AIAC's Boima a shoutout for his Ghetto Balms Mix Tape