This blog chronicles musings of an African on an array of topics not necessarily exclusive to the continent of Africa
A Bombastic Element ranks 483 in Africa and 25 in Africa General. According to site visitors it ranks 207, and 215 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 2250 and 2302 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Among all the art schools, styles and movements--e.g. the Zaria, Nsukka and Ife schools, the Uli movement... --coming out of Nigeria, this ABN eye on Lagos episode actually dwells on the Yaba school and style. Those from the Yaba school featured include painters Kolade Oshinowo, Tayo Quai, Abiodun Olaku and
John Huston's African Queen (1951), starring Humphrey Borgart and Kathrine Hepburn, gets its first U.S./ region 1 digital release when its blu ray drops on March 23rd. Below, Paramount has their restoration geeks take us through the process of putting this technicolor dinosaur back together again: Why this particular restoration was
The dykumentary, from Shoot 2 Kill Films and directors Jacque Oldfield and Adelheid Reinecke, is a mockumentary based on the A to Z of lesbian stereotypes - the chic chick Jean Pierre and her listless lackey, Sophia; Sam, the skateboarder and her balance-challenged scatty bi girlfriend; Petunia the heavy huntresses, butcher, baker
Sweet 16 by B.B King. from B.B. King in Africa, 74 (1998). Label: Shout Factory. From Pop Matters: In 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held their heavyweight title fight in Zaire, billing it as the “Rumble in the Jungle”. A three-day music festival was staged concurrently, and B.B. King was
Still on film preservation - last year Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Fund was responsible for helping restore the 1969 Egyptian classic "The Mummy" ( المومياء ليله ان تحصی السنين /"The Night of Counting the Years") by Shady Abdel-Salam, and recently we learnt Google video has been streaming the whole 1hr
Congolese Simon Kashama (from Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined') covers some Franco. No comment.
First wine maker status is now so ... yawn...; as she says, she's now just another black winemaker in charge of a cellar. I always remember her though because her story inspired this post on the phenomenological excuse for diversity, or why such delicate skill sets--e.g. wine making--need to
Adam Kirsh has a rather meaty article up at TNR on Zadie Smith's writing. Kirsch argues "Smith is so certain that racism is not a threat" and that even though she writes about immigrants, in White Teeth for example, "rancor and racism are things of the past--problems for the grouchy
The Independent's Johann Hari's mega essay on the abduction of women and forced marriages in Ethiopia and efforts by Ethiopian women to foster the gender communication needed to stop it is worth the read. Hari touches on all aspects: the rapes, the Stockholm syndrome that develops and the entrenched traditions
AFP/ Issouf Sanogo Back in January, Expatica.com did a feature on Abouet and Aya of Yop City - here - and Aya was nominated for a Glyph award in February, and an older interview in French before volume 3 dropped last September:
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