keeping track of african and africa-related culture in the visual media
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Screen shot from Chris Saunders’ web site. © C. Saunders PHOTOGRAPHY: Chris Saunders: fashion. Features images of the Smarteez of Soweto. See also: Lolo Veleko: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” for an earlier survey of the Smarteez. PHOTOGRAPHY: Book Review: Malick Sidibe vs Dash Snow.
Vodou in Brooklyn: Audio slideshow featuring the images and commentary of photojournalist Stephanie Keith who has documented a series of vodou parties involving Haitian immigrants who live in New York City. [via the never boring boing boing]
FASHION: Photos from 2009 Swahili Fashion Week held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania this past November. Screenshot from Swahili Fashion Week site FASHION: Suno New York. Clothing line designed and developed in New York City’s Garment District and sewn in Kenya. Previous collections have been inspired by khanga cloth from
To that effect, black female artists exhibiting more rebellious styles are consequently shunned by black audiences for being “too weird,” and ignored by other audiences as not being authentic rock musicians. This is where the Afro-punk movement comes in: a blindingly boisterous collection of musicians whose general style makes
Image of Peter Beard on the shores of Lake Turkana, 1965. From Guardian web site. Controversial diarist, artist, photographer, writer, conservation activitist Peter Beard links my two worlds in New York City and Kenya. I always thought he was a Kenyan, a Kenya Cowboy to be sure but
Photos by your humble servant PHOTOGRAPHY: Pictures taken from the not so recent African Day Parade. The main parade was rained out but folks still turned out on 116th St. for a soggy, abbreviated celebration. Screenshot of photo essay: “Halloween in Harlem” by Amy Stein.
Trailer for the Waris Dirie biographical film “Desert Flower” FILM: Desert Flower. Waris Dirie’s book of her escape from Somalia, rise to supermodel superstar-dom and later fight against female genital mutilation gets the Hollywood treatment. Ethiopian Liya Kebede stars. Screenshot from Suresh Natarjan’s portfolio site on the
Back in February, the Jamaican Broadcasting Commission banned from the radio songs that reference “daggering” and other acts of sex and violence. The controversy set to the one-drop reggae of the “Indiscretions Riddim” (featured on Heatwave’s Early Warming mixtape). Indiscretion: Konshens – Straight Forward (Indiscretions Riddim) But tonite
“The BLK JKS homecoming slideshow” audio slide show from the Mail & Guardian site. Music: BLK JKS are back in the States to tour in support of the debut album “After Robots” out now. Rolling Stone has called them “Africa’s best new band” and artists to watch in
Democracy in Dakar Trailer from Nomadic Wax on Vimeo. Politics: “Democracy in Dakar” The intersection of hip hop, activism and politics. African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar Senegal. The film follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and people
