The former Zambian President, who was a darling of the West and the Christian right, is in court for defrauding the state while in office. Details of his extravagant lifestyle include the following, are emerging in court: “Mr. Chiluba owned more than 100 pairs of size 6 shoes, many affixed with his initials in brass. [...]
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frederick chiluba’s shoes
Posted in You can't make this stuff up, tagged Frederick Chiluba, Imelda Marcos, You can't make this stuff up, Zambia on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hollyweird loves Chantal Biya’s hair
Posted in You can't make this stuff up, tagged Cameroon, Chantal Biya, comedy, hair, humor, Paris Hilton, You can't make this stuff up on April 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It can’t get better than this. US popular culture is discovering the Cameroonian first lady and her unique hairstyles in a big way. The official reason for her visit to Los Angeles was an “African First Ladies Health Summit.” Blogs here can’t get enough of her. And Biya can’t get enough of the cameras as [...]
things you didn’t know about Brooklyn
Posted in You can't make this stuff up, tagged apartheid, Brooklyn, South Africa, things you did not know about Brooklyn on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like the fact that the borough’s official motto is that of Apartheid South Africa. Serious: “Een Draght Mackt Maght.” That’s because they both have Dutch origins. More here.
21st century race science
Posted in You can't make this stuff up, tagged natural selection, Nicholas Wade, race science, racialism on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“… In a worldwide survey of 50 populations, a team of geneticists has identified many fingerprints of natural selection in the human genome. These are sites on the genome where specific sequences of DNA show signs of having become more common in the population, presumably because they helped their owners adapt to new climates, diseases [...]
‘DNA’
Posted in You can't make this stuff up, tagged African Ancestry, DNA, Hausa, Henry Louis Gates, Isaiah Washington, Why isn't CNN covering this, Yoruba on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted with vodpod From a video by the company, African Ancestry promoting the very profitable business of tracing African-Americans’ DNA . Judge Hatchett, if you don’t know, is an American “TV judge. The popular face of this process is the actor Isaiah Washington and one of is key “intellectual” boosters, for a while, was the [...]
‘Home’
Posted in Music, You can't make this stuff up, tagged Adesiji, Afrobeat, Fela, Music, Nigeria, Palm Wine Drunkard, Siji, Soul, video on April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Posted with vodpod Nice video. Phone cards, fashion, people (his friends?), photographs, games, books (Amos Tutuola‘s “The Palm Wine Drunkard”), Fela records, among others, are referenced by US-based soul singer Siji to re-imagine “home” in the video for his samba-inflected tune “Yearning For Home”: So is home 1970s Nigeria? nu-soul, boho New York City? Or [...]
Abd Al Malik, ‘Gibraltar’
Posted in Music, You can't make this stuff up, tagged Abd Al Malik, Congo, France, Gibraltar, Islam, Music, New African Poets, religion, video on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted with vodpod I had to post this again. One of my favorite tunes and artists.
Studio Q
Posted in Music, You can't make this stuff up, tagged Books, Hanif Kureishi, K'Naan, Music, Pakistan, Somalia on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted with vodpod I recently discovered the Youtube channel of the Canadian public radio program, Studio Q. (I was looking for an interview with British writer Hanif Kureishi after reading a feature on him in Prospect Magazine). Which is how I got to this recent interview with K’Naan, the Somali rapper based in Canada. (It [...]
‘the banana’
Posted in You can't make this stuff up, tagged Cameroon, Chantal Biya, la banane, Paul Biya, the banana, the Chantal Biya hair theory, tougher than Nigerian hair, You can't make this stuff up on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Blogger Texas African has a hilarious post about the Cameroonian first lady’s unique hairstyles. As Pope Benedict crisscrosses the continent contradicting himself (on AIDS and poverty), some people missed the other important story about his visit to Cameroon: Chantal Biya’s hair. You can’t miss it. The one in the picture, which is copied in Cameroon, [...]
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