Minnesota Public Radio show ‘The Current’ streams live performances recorded at its Fritzgerald Theater on its website. The latest: three songs performed by Toumani Diabate, the Malian kora player (I saw him perform live last summer in downtown Brooklyn with his Symmetric Orchestra. He got the crowd going). You can listen here.
Archive for January, 2008
Boulevard de l’Independance
Posted in Music, tagged kora, live performances, Mali, Minnesota Public Radio, Music, Toumani Diabate on January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Tony Judt on Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eichmann in Jerusalem, Europe, evil, Hannah Arendt, Israel, Post-War, Tony Judt, World War II on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘… In one sense, … Arendt was of course correct [that the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe.] But as so often, it took other people longer to grasp her point. It is true that in the aftermath of Hitler’s defeat and the Nuremberg trials lawyers and [...]
‘There is an evil in this town ..’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged African-Americans, black people, brutality, Lima, Ohio, police, politics, racial violence, racism on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘Black people in Lima [Ohio], from the poorest citizens to religious and business leaders, complain that rogue police officers regularly stop them without cause, point guns in their faces, curse them and physically abuse them. They say the shooting of Ms. [Tamika] Wilson is only the latest example of a long-running pattern of a few [...]
Anything Greg Tate wants to talk about
Posted in Music, technology, tagged Black Rock, Greg Tate, Music, Village Voice, Youtube on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘In my experience, there are two kinds of coloured folk: Black Rockers and Blackies Who Rock. The distinction is between those who’d gladly join the Black Rock Coalition or openly claim Afro-Punk affiliation, and malcontents who’re such badass renegade punk-rock futhermuckers that they’d never join the only club that would have them, and would rather [...]
The Kurosawan theory of the state
Posted in Books, tagged Diary of a Bad Year, Europe, J M Coetzee, Kurosawa, media, Senor C, theory of the origins of the state on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘The Kurosawan story of the origins of the state is still played out in our times in Africa, where gangs of armed men grab power — do away with their rivals, and proclaim Year One. Though these African military gangs are often no larger or more powerful than the organized criminal gangs of Asia or [...]
Moving to WordPress
Posted in Leo Africanus, migration on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This blog will go OFFLINE in ONE WEEK. Ever the traveler, I moved over to WordPress. The many technical glitches of Blogger became too much. – Leo
Favorite current person: Elrio van Heerden
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Profiled by Belgian TV channel, EEN. In Flemish (close to Afrikaans) and English. He equalized for Bafana against Angola earlier this week in Ghana.
No African ever wrote a good read on the Congo River
Posted in Books on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s if you believe journalist Tim Butcher. Tim Butcher’s Top Ten Books About Congo, a regular ‘Top Ten’ list was just published in the Guardian and surprise: it does not include a single African, or even Congolese writer. Granted it is a subjective list, but I am not surprised and it makes perfect sense. Tim [...]
Images of Africa / Zimbabwe
Posted in images of Africa, Zimbabwe on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Zimbabwe, originally uploaded by Leo Africanus. Graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies (‘the guerrilla of design’) lectures in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (To see the whole image, click on the photograph.)
Art / Malick Sidibe and Zwelethu Mthethwa
Posted in Mali, Malick Sidibe, photography, South Africa on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The photographs of Sidibe and Mthethwa are on view at Washington DC’s G Fine Art Gallery as part of an exhibition on “Portraits.’ See also here.
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