I spotted this sign in a bodega near my house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, yesterday. I think the picture is an appropriate marker as I cease blogging for a few weeks. I am off to South Africa tomorrow to see my relatives for a few weeks and soak up South Africanisms. No blogging till well [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Going on Safari
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa is a Country, Sean Jacobs on December 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“Two kinds of chicken”
Posted in politics, tagged A Sharpton, American politics, Caroline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, race and politics, two kinds of chicken, You can't make this stuff up on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted with vodpod Caroline Kennedy is “running” for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton (joining Barack Obama’s Cabinet next year). Kennedy is unofficially campaigning for the seat while not campaigning. You work that out. Just another wealthy person gets to talk about “change” while getting lots of sympathetic coverage from journalists who come from [...]
The top 10 albums of 2008
Posted in Music, tagged 88 Keys, Al Green, Green Arrows, Hector Lavoe, Music, Nas, Santogold, Terror MC, Top 10 Albums of 2008, Vampire Weekend, Wale on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Best album: a tie between Vampire Weekend’s preppie world music on their self-titled album, The Reverend Al Green’s return (accompanied by a hosts of guest stars) on Lay it Down and Nas’s Untitled album. South African Terror MC, who mainly rhymes in Afrikaans, made Street Life (download for free), and hipster rappers 88 Keys brought [...]
The shocking “revelation” of Will Smith’s Seven Pounds
Posted in film, tagged Charles Mudede, film reviews, films, Will Smith's Seven Pounds on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Critic Charles Tonderai Mudede in The Stranger: The movie is about the death of the black male. Now let’s go back in history. Locked in the ghetto and in his specific social station, the black male had a clear identity. He knew who he was. He was who he was because he was black. He [...]
No medal for the Village Voice
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Bernie Madoff, Kenyan track athletes, media, sport, Village Voice, You can't make this stuff up on December 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
New York financier Bernie Madoff stole $50 billion from investors, in a Ponzi scheme while the Feds either played footsie with him or looked the other way, the city has housing, health care and schooling crises, and the Village Voice (freely available in your neighborhood pizza house; btw when last was it relevant?) runs a [...]
Madagascar, not the children’s movie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gratuitous movie references, Madagascar, You can't make this stuff up on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A South African man accused of trying to smuggle hundreds of rare chameleons, snakes, lizards and frogs out of Madagascar inside his jacket and luggage was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to a year in jail. Jo van Niekerk, 29, a zoology student from Pretoria, was arrested in November at Antananarivo Airport with 388 animals, among [...]
How not to write about Africa
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Canadian media and Africa, Globe & Mail, Johannesburg, Stephanie Nolen on December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Stephanie Nolen was Africa correspondent for the Canadian Globe & Mail. In long piece for the paper, she reflects on her time on the continent, including falling for Johannesburg, which acted as her home base: I realized that in my bleaker moments, I was doing what I often chided others for — seeing Africa as [...]
The music of Dengue Fever
Posted in Music, tagged Cambodian pop music, Chhom Nimol, Dengue Fever, Los Angeles, Music, psychedelic rock on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
HipLife in Ghana on film
Posted in film, Music, tagged documentary films, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, film, Ghana, hiplife, Music, VIP on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New trailer for the feature documentary about popular Ghanaian hiplife group, VIP. More on the film by director (and former Brooklyn resident) Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi.
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