Hip hop have always thrived on Cape Town’s Cape Flats; that vast expanse of coloured and African working class (and dotted with occasional middle class) neighborhoods on the periphery of the city’s mostly white and wealthy center. Rap pioneers Prophets of da City (the subject of the new documentary by Dylan Valley and Sean Drummond), [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Sound: Terror MC
Posted in economy, hip hop, K'Naan, Music, popular culture on October 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »
‘The NBA’s only Arabic Speaker’
Posted in Luol Deng, sports on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Simon Kuper in the Financial Times reports on Luol Deng of the National Basketball Association’s Chicago Bulls .
Sound Bites: Awesome Tapes from Africa
Posted in Music on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Awesome Tapes from Africa, a site that collects and streams obscure and familiar African music. Recently the site owner was featured on New York’s WFMU Radio). For background on the site and its owner, read here.
Sound Bites: Radical Radio
Posted in economy, globalization, liberal humanitarianism, New Scramble for Africa, radio on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘The Ravaging of Africa, ‘… a four-part radio documentary series about the destructive impact of U.S. imperialism on Africa, featuring voices of African activists interviewed at the 2007 World Social Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya,’ that will not make the World Bank, IMF, African Union or various African governments happy, will be launched this week [...]
Sound Bites: Carnegie Oral History Project
Posted in Omar Badsha, Oral History, post-1994 South Africa, South Africa on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Columbia University Libraries Oral History Research Office has placed online a series of video interviews done as part of the Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project. Among these are interviews with South African political personalities, including the documentary photographer , former Robben Island political prisoner and postapartheid president of the Land Claims Court Fikile Bam, lawyer [...]
Sight: Africa, in Black and White
Posted in photography on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Spring 2007 issue of Private Photo Review, the Italian magazine of ‘black and white photographs and texts’ focuses on African photographers. The editors note in the introduction: … Next to exogenous images of ourselves [meaning Westerners], which are relayed by media and advertising and threaten to surround and close us in archetypes, there are [...]
Sight: Isaac Julien
Posted in art, film, immigration, Isaac Julien, Metro Pictures on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Martina Kudláček interviews Isaac Julien in the latest issue of BOMB magazine about his triptych of films about journing across continents and cultures – True North, Fantôme Afrique and Small Boats, a film about African immigration to Italy. Small Boats can be viewed at Metro Pictures in New York City from 26 October through to [...]
Sound Bites: WPS1 Art Radio
Posted in Malick Sidibe, photography, PS1 on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WPS1 Art Radio is the online station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in turn part of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The station’s website reports that it interviewed Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, among others. You can listen to the interview at WPS1 Art Radio’s website. (The occasion was Sidibé being awarded [...]
The Devil’s in the Detail
Posted in film, New York African Film Festival on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Docfest 07, the annual documentary festival of the Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio), kicked off last night in New York City and runs through November 1. Aside from the general focus, the festival features a special ‘Focus Africa’ section. It is not entirely clear why the festival has an [...]
Sathima goes digital
Posted in jazz, Johnny Gertze, Makhaya Ntsoko, Morning in Paris, Music on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week Sathima Bea Benjamin, the South African jazz singer and one of my favorite artists, turned 71. To celebrate her record company reissued her classic 1963 recording A Morning in Paris — that she had recorded with Duke Ellington, pianist Billy Strayhorn, her husband Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim), bassist Johnny Gertze and drummer [...]
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