The Bronx, Ghana
From a New York Daily News story (from earlier this year) about Twi (Ghanaian language) courses
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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.
'The Best African Movie'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyjBiIgafGY Last week the Congolese film "Viva Riva" won "The Best African Movie"* award at the
New Documentaries
Some of the films in The Encounters Documentary Film Festival which kicks off its 13th year
Journalism in Ethiopia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0yIgGGtT0
Sarah Palin is going to Sudan
The main reaction to Palin is to mock her, but the problem is someone like her got those close to the most powerful office globally. That should scare us.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0nq5nGvPU&w=560&h=349] As a bonus, see also the 10-minute video for "Clap" also off "W.A.R.," below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_iDZbSZ3I
'The Most Phenomenal Finale'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcXYZMYkKKI I don't watch much rugby these days, but the final moments of the cup final
Music Break
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/24394476 w=580&h=324] The new music video for "Drip Dry" by the Johannesburg hipsters Dirty Paraffin. The
'Short Cut'
http://youtu.be/ubz387K2XL0 The trailer for the feature film "Short Cut" (to be directed by Norman Maake) about
Street Photographer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxFJgqicZw&w=560&h=349] Charlie Ahearn's new documentary of Brooklyn photographer Jamal Shabazz screening on June 26 at the
Andrew Dosunmu's 'Restless City'
I recently missed out on seeing a special screening (at BAM in Brooklyn) of "Restless City,"
'African Air'
Georgr Steinmetz's Africa. Watch it here. More on Steinmetz here.
An Ordinary Killing
Riveting piece of journalism in this weekend's New York Times Magazine as well as an accompanying
Out of Africa
Vanity Fair's June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3P_mYAkhg Mayer Hawthorne featuring guitarist Dennis Coffey.
'Three soldiers from Somalia'
I reread that infamous 2010 New Yorker profile. of Gil Scott Heron earlier today. I was