No need to panic. No revolution or liberation wars on US shores. Yet. Just literary heads, film and music in honor of The Chimurenga Library at The Kitchen in Chelsea on the West Side of Manhattan. Flavorpill has the summary here. And here‘s a link to the original notice. See you there.
Archive for September, 2008
Chimurenga in New York City next Monday night
Posted in Books, film, Music, Not just about Africa, tagged art galleries, Books, Chimurenga magazine, events in New York City, film, Music, New York happenings, The Kitchen on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s a Blog Blog World #1
Posted in blogs, tagged Bagnewsnotes, Blog Roll, blogs, It's a Blog, My favorite blogs on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
First up BagNewsNotes. “A progressive blog dedicated to visual politics, the analysis of news images, and the support of ‘concerned photojournalism.” I love this site — despite it being overly American-centric — as a media scholar and as someone obsessed with politics. I’ve been a fan since it started in mid-2003 Here’s the site.
Street philosophers
Posted in film, tagged Astra Taylor, documentary films, Examined Life, film, philosophers on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Filmmaker Astra Taylor continues her obsession with philosophers with her new documentary, “Examined Life.” Last time she followed Slavoj Zizek around. The new film includes interviews with Cornel West (in this clip), Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Ghanaian-born Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek (again). Here‘s a blogpost by Taylor [...]
The photography of Araminta de Clermont
Posted in photography, tagged Araminta de Clermont, photography on September 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Slideshow of Araminta de Clermont’s photographs of tattooed prisoners and ex-convictis in Cape Town, South Africa on the Guardian’s website. Photographing ex-cons (mainly black men) in Cape Town is somewhat of a trope that not just confirm deep seated prejudices, but also comes with rewards on the art circuit. So I am not always sure [...]
The exit of George W Bush’s “point man” in Africa
Posted in politics, South Africa, tagged African National Congress, ANC, George Bush, George W Bush, Jacob Zuma, opinion, politics, South Africa on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thabo Mbeki — unceremoniously dumped by his party as South Africa’s President last weekend — was routinely referred to by George W. Bush as his “point man” in Africa. For the leading member of a movement with historical ties to the Soviet Union that until recently was on the State Department’s terrorist watch list, Mbeki [...]
The Zuma Chronicles #105
Posted in politics, South Africa, tagged African National Congress, After Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, politics, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, The Zuma Chronicles on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“One of the great ironies is that Zuma [now] sounds like a U.S. Republican … He wants tougher action against crime and freer markets. Any white person in the suburbs who’s listening and getting alarmed is clearly just feeding off prejudice.” That’s Stephen Friedman, a newspaper columnist and a research associate at the Institute for [...]
Why I love Cape Town
Posted in Books, South Africa, tagged book reviews, Books, Cape Town, South Africa on September 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I finally got around (on the subway, in a bus, waiting for my daughter after preschool, etc) to reading the edited volume A City Imagined. It’s a collection of short essays about Cape Town edited by Stephen Watson. The publisher (and Watson in the introduction) claims that the “… range of voices is wide, the [...]
419 Letter from Henry Paulson
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Henry Paulson, John McCain, US presidential elections 2008 on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you [...]
Concerned Africa Scholars
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged ACAS, Concerned Africa Scholars on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My day job is as an academic at a large, prominent midwestern university. That is also where my association with the Concerned Africa Scholars comes from. This organization is largely US-based. Its members are largely scholars and students engaged in critical research and analysis of Africa and U.S. government policy; developing communication and action networks; [...]
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