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Archive for June, 2008

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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. [...]

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Listen to the interview on the BBC here. Soyinka’s statement comes as the embattled opposition Movement for Democratic Change announced today it was withdrawing from the run-off election this Friday, on June 27.

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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 [...]

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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! [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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