I’m off to Deutchland with my family tonight till July 9, so not much posting till I get back to Kings County. Unless the spirit moves me. Till then, if you visit this site, here’s the music of Sudanese-native, Columbus,Ohio-based drummer Ahmed Gallab (uses the name of his band Sinkane and also part of the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
On Safari
Posted in Music, tagged Ahmed Gallab, Autobahn, Columbus, elctronic music, mp3, Music, Ohio music, Sinkane, Sudan on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fela Kuti lives on Broadway
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Bill T Jones, Black President, Broadway, Fela Kuti, Music, musicals, Nigeria, theater on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill T. Jones … the Tony-winning choreographer of “Spring Awakening,” is back at work in the theater as the choreographer and director of “Fela!,” a musical based on the life of the Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (or Fela Kuti, as he is widely known). The show features a book by Mr. [...]
Paul Gilroy on ‘What is Africa to me, now”
Posted in Books, Not just about Africa, politics, tagged Africa, African-Americans, Harvard University, ideas, Paul Gilroy, politics, Tommy Shelby, Transition magazine on June 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In an interview with Harvard University academic Tommy Shelby in the latest (and uneven) Transition magazine: What is Africa to me now, … I don’t know that we can assume that there’s anything spontaneous about the forms of recognition involved. And I think that’s compounded by the globalization of African American culture as American culture. [...]
Viva Africa! the theme for July’s First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Posted in film, Music, New York City, tagged Abderrahmane Sissako, Brooklyn Museum, Dj Stone, events, Fort Greene, Moolade, museums, Music, Ousmane Sembene, party on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum happens again on July 5. Next month’s theme is an African affair, including screenings of Ousmane Sembene’s Moolade and Abderrahmane Sissako’s Waiting for Happiness as well as Brooklyn/Botswana DJ Stone (pictured at the Chimurenga Party at Le Grande Dakar in Fort Greene in May this year) headlining an [...]
Actress Ashley Judd’s Africa “pilgrimage”
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Africa, AID politics, AIDS, Ashley Judd, Bono, celebrity humanitarianism on June 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The actress Ashley Judd who does work with “Youth AIDS” (and I agree, who does bring attention to the extent of the pandemic on the continent and its effects on communities’ day-day-to-lives in US media outlets) on her travels to Rwanda: “Everything, but everything, made me cry! My first African tree! My first African bird! [...]
Documentary on Coupé Decalé
Posted in film, Music, tagged Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, coupe decale, dance, documentary, film, Music on June 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“We are heroes when we score goals but we are people’s enemies on the streets.”
Posted in soccer, South Africa, sport, sports, tagged soccer, South Africa, The Beautiful Game, xenophobia on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Boston Celtics have adopted the South African word ubuntu as a team slogan this season. It means unity, interconnectedness and literally, “we are who we are through others.” There is a terrible irony that ubuntu is currently being embraced in Boston while South Africa has recently seen a viral spread of ethnic violence–the utter [...]
Marlene Dumas “the world’s most expensive living female artist”
Posted in art, painting, tagged art, Marlene Dumas, painting on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times Magazine profiles the South African-born Dutch painter, Marlene Dumas who briefly laid claim to the title of “the world’s most expensive living female artist” when “… [i]n February 2005, at Christie’s in London, “The Teacher (sub a)” (1987) — a large, horizontal group portrait that turns a sentiment-laden class picture from [...]
Kehinde Wiley: “The World Stage: Lagos – Dakar
Posted in art, painting, tagged art, Brooklyn artists, Dakar, Kehinde Wiley, Lagos, Nigeria, painting, Senegal, Studio Museum in Harlem, The World Stage on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley has made a name with his large scale portraits of African-American men (with few exceptions non-professional models literally picked on the street) dressed in urban style painted in poses taken from the portraiture of Old European Masters. For his latest project, Wiley set up satellite studios in big cities outside [...]
-
Archives
- August 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
