Archive for March, 2008
Hip-life in Harlem
Posted in film, Music, New York City, Not just about Africa, Not on the Radio, tagged Africa on Your Street, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, film, Ghana, Ghana in New York City, Harlem, hip hop, hiplife, Music on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NY Times and the ‘Masai warrior’
Posted in New York Times, You can't make this stuff up, tagged American media and Africa, Masai, New York Times, race, You can't make this stuff up on March 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
In 1906 the Bronx Zoo brought a Congolese Pygmy named Ota Benga over from Africa to exhibit at the zoo and housed him in the Zoo’s ‘Monkey House.’ Two years ago, the New York Times in a long report recalled the event and criticized the paper’s own coverage then. As the New York Times reported [...]
Boogie Monsters
Posted in New York City, tagged Boogie, Brooklyn, New York City, photography, PowerHouse Books on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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The Legendary Roots Crew has a blog now
Posted in Internet, Music, tagged Blogging, hip hop, jazz, Music, The Roots on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s like when someone you know finally signs up for a Facebook profile. Here. (They compete for my loyalty with Abdullah Ibrahim).
African artists exhibit at Studio Museum in Harlem
Posted in hip hop, New York City, Not just about Africa, South Africa, tagged art, art and artists, Lolo Veleko, Mounir Fatmi, Mustafa Maluka, Nicholas Hlobo, photography, Studio Museum of Harlem on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Flow‘ is a show of about 80 works by 20 different African artists currently showing at the Studio Museum of Harlem, including the work of Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko, France-based Mounir Fatmi, Johannesburg’s Nicholas Hlobo, and Berlin-based Mustafa Maluka. The Wall Street Journal‘s culture page gives its take. Here.
Robert Mugabe ‘may not have rigged this enough’
Posted in politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, tagged Financial Mail, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe elections on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A prominent businessman who has close ties to Zanu-PF but is hoping for change told the Financial Times there was only one chance for the MDC: “We must hope the old man [Mugabe] is so arrogant that he believes his propaganda that he is still loved. If so, he just may not have rigged this [...]
Paris Hilton: ‘West Africa is a great country’
Posted in Paris Hilton, You can't make this stuff up, tagged Africa is a Country, Paris Hilton, You can't make this stuff up on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Serious. Paris Hilton said this. Here. Buy her a map. Tell that to the people who live in that region.
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elections, inflation, money, politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
David Scott, world editor (that’s basically everything but the United States) of the Christian Science Monitor on one of the paper’s reporters covering the Zimbabwean election: My Millionaire Kids: Who wants to be a millionaire? In Zimbabwe, it’s rather hard not to be. In a country where a loaf of bread costs 10 million Zimbabwean [...]
Robert Mugabe lives on a cloud
Posted in politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, tagged dictatorships, elections, Morgan Tsvangirai, politics, Robert Mugabe, Simba Makoni, Zimbabwe on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whether Robert Mugabe (who has governed Zimbabwe since independence in 1980) can rig this weekend’s Presidential elections in Zimbabwe is still not clear, but we sure he is deluded.Evidence of Mugabe’s oddness here [via Al Jazeera English, the only 'international' news network allowed to report the elections and whose 'reporter' Supa Mandiwanzira seems to channel Mugabe and [...]
‘Blacks should not be ashamed to be filthy rich’*
Posted in economy, journalism, money, Not just about Africa, politics, tagged Billionaires, Black economic empowerment, Forbes, money, Patrice Motsepe, Richest People in the World, South Africa, Wabenzi, Warren Buffett, wealth on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Patrice Motsepe, the new generation South African capitalist, is on the cover of Forbes’ ‘Richest People’ issue (he’s worth $2,4 billion; the richest man is the American investment guru Warren Buffett at $62 billion).Full story here. * BTW, the quote referenced in the my title is from a statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, currently South Africa’s [...]
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