Cape Town’s Inner Ugly
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/cape-towns-inner-ugly
The Democratic Alliance (DA), has governed South Africa’s Western Cape province since 2009 and Cape Town, its largest
The blog that’s not about famine, Bono, or Barack Obama.
Cape Town’s Inner Ugly
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/cape-towns-inner-ugly
The Democratic Alliance (DA), has governed South Africa’s Western Cape province since 2009 and Cape Town, its largest
The weakness of democracy in Ghana
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/the-weakness-of-democracy-in-ghana
On the morning of October 22, 2018, students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (known more
The emperor has no clothes
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/the-emperor-has-no-clothes
On December 3, 2018, Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King)
Double jeopardy
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/double-jeopardy
I recently concluded optimistically that Mauritanian exiles in Ohio, who had arrived between the mid-1990s and early-2000s, are
Resources and rape: The DRC’s (toxic) discursive complex
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/resources-and-rape-the-drcs-toxic-discursive-complex
The recent award to Dr Denis Mukwege of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, for his extraordinary efforts to end the use of
‘Their champagne party will end’
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/their-champagne-party-will-end
The current historical moment is deeply troubled. Democratic institutions from Mozambique to Mali seem fragile and flawed. Equally
The architects of fantasy
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/the-architects-of-fantasy
A pink fish, a fierce lion, an NBA basketball, or even an octopus. These are all
Transitional justice’s glass ceiling
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/transitional-justices-glass-ceiling
The spotlight on gender-based violence (GBV) has possibly never been brighter than in recent years. The United Nations has declared
Postcolonial theory and the strong arm of identity
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/postcolonial-theory-and-the-strong-arm-of-identity
I have always been mistrustful of the rhetoric on decolonization. Our difficulty deciding its meaning not only
Gods of Fiction: African writers and the fantasy of power
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/gods-of-fiction-african-writers-and-the-fantasy-of-power
“If I were God,” Chinua Achebe writes in The Novelist as Teacher, “I would regard as
Black & White
#Tropenmuseum, #Amsterdam
Who is black and who is white? Who actually determines this? And what does the slavery past have to do with this? 150 years after the abolition of slavery, the Tropenmuseum will invite visitors to engage in discussion, with each other and with themselves in the exhibition Black & White.
▻http://www.tropenmuseum.com/smartsite.shtml?ch=TMU&id=82645
#racisme #couleur_de_la_peau #noirs #blancs #exposition #musée #couleurs_de_peau
@albertocampiphoto a promis d’ajouter des photos de l’expo sur seenthis... on va voir s’il le fait vraiment !
;o
Il y avait notamment une très belle analyse de cette photo de l’équipe nationale de foot de 1996 (?)
▻http://www.tropenmuseum.com/-/MUS/83114/Tropenmuseum/Tropenmuseum-Zwart-Wit/Slideshow/Guus-Dubbelman---Nationaal-elftal.jpg
Vu à la même occasion
Madonna (after #Omomá and #Céline)
The Tropenmuseum presents the sculpture ’#Madonna (after Omomá and Céline)’. This sculpture by Dutch artist #Roy_Villevoye was purchased in 2010 by the museum.
Madonna - Roy Villevoye (uitsnede)The lifelike sculpture represents a small black man holding a white baby. Koos van Brakel, Tropenmuseum’s Head of Collections, explains why the museum bought the sculpture: "What makes this work special is te way it forces viewers to ask questions. We hope that they will try to work it out what it means for themselves.
That fits in with our ethos. While as a museum we try to tell a story, we also give our visitors the space to make up their own mind about what they see.”
Roy Villevoye
Elements and people of New Guinea are a recurring theme in his work. He is interested in how culture works and how one culture develops in relation to others.
▻http://www.tropenmuseum.com/-/MUS/55681/Tropenmuseum/Madonna---Roy-Villevoye-(uitsnede).jpg
▻http://www.tropenmuseum.com/smartsite.shtml?ch=TMU&id=55687
Tout ça me fait penser à ça : ►http://seenthis.net/messages/177068, vu en Flandre, à Gand, par une compagnie sud-africaine. La boucle se boucle chez les boers.
Maintenant, vont-ils faire quelque chose contre Zwart Piet, le seul père fouettard présenté comme figure traditionnelle, mais ne datant que du 19e ! Ailleurs, c’est un ramoneur. Mais pas chez les boers (Belgique, Pays-Bas) où il est une espèce de
Minstrel (▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show) super idiot.
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_fouettard
►http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Fouettard_%28Zwarte_Piet%29
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet
En Hollande, les Zwarte Piet sont plusieurs depuis... 1952
Although the project has a quirky sense of humor, #ENDIA_BEAL is an artist looking to open a dialogue among people of different gender, race, and generations about the ways in which we express ourselves, specifically in a corporate environment.
De ce qu’on entend ici à Amsterdam, cela fait depuis l’année passée que la polémique prend de l’ampleur, surtout après cet événement. La polémique a été plus grande cette année par rapport à l’année passée et les gens pensent que l’année prochaine ça va vraiment pété... En tout cas, on a été dans deux expos ce mois-ci et dans les deux on parlait de près ou de loin du Zwart Piet.
Voici une page facebook de ceux qui veulent en finir avec Zwart Piet :
▻https://www.facebook.com/pages/Weg-Met-Zwarte-Piet/273113352727614
Et ici la page ZWARTE PIET IS RACISME :
▻http://zwartepietisracisme.tumblr.com
Si je ne me trompe pas, la personne qui a créé ce site a été incarcérée l’année passée car il portait un t-shirt « Zwarte Piet is racisme »... Et c’est depuis ce moment que la polémique a pris une ampleur plus grande... et que tout le monde maintenant en parle !
By the way, si vous voulez un t-shirt, c’est ici qu’il faut l’acheter:
▻http://zwartepietisracisme.tumblr.com/tshirts
Dans l’expo dont je parlais, une des personnes (un homme qui personnifiait un migrant « échoué ») portait justement ce t-shirt... Je pensais que c’était lié à l’expo. Merci pour la référence.
Le Père Fouettard est un cliché raciste
La version néerlandaise du Père Fouettard, Zwarte Piet, a la peau noire. Si le personnage ne fait plus l’unanimité depuis longtemps, le tribunal d’Amsterdam a enfin tranché, le 3 juillet : il reste une figure offensante.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2014/07/04/le-pere-fouettard-est-un-cliche-raciste
Et l’url de l’image du Tropenmuseum n’étant plus accessible, je la recolle ;)
Je proffite qu’une image soit sortie d’un de mes articles pour en parler. ▻http://meinamsterdam.nl/qui-est-tu-zwarte-piet Cet article date de 2006, année de ma première Saint-Nicolas à Amsterdam. À l’époque, il me semble que la polémique n’était pas aussi gonflée que maintenant mais elle existait déjà. Peut-être parce que je rencontrais pas mal d’étrangers que ça choquait.
Par contre touti, je ne trouve pas l’URL que tu as renvoyée.
@aloxe avec #seenthis_qui_est_décidement_un_merveilleux_outil tu as juste à coller l’URL d’un document pour que celle-ci soit interprétée en image/son/vidéo …
et pour le visiteur qui veut retrouver l’URL originale il y a un lien sur le document pour l’y mener.
Oui mais je demandais l’URL, je pensais que tu l’avais postée mais il n’y a qu’une photo...
Finalement, je l’ai retrouvée ▻http://tropenmuseum.nl/en/black-white
Things that African kids in Europe want to hear
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/things-that-african-kids-in-europe-want-to-hear
Lamin Fofana is a Sierra Leonean DJ and electronic music producer currently living and working out of
The state of the Afro-European union
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/the-state-of-afro-europe
We’re back with INTL BLK radio after a few months hiatus. In this episode, Chief Boima
Black bodies will fall in Brazil
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/black-bodies-will-fall-in-brazil
With the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil, one of the darkest periods in the country’s history has
Presidential power and the Museveni state in Uganda
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/presidential-power-and-the-museveni-state-in-uganda
Recent weeks have seen increased global media attention to Uganda following the incidents surrounding the arrest
Mandela’s dreams
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/mandelas-dreams
In Mandela’s Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming, Sharon Sliwinski contemplates the ways in which freedom fighter and later
Homophobic liberals
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/homophobic-liberals
Homophobia in Africa is conventionally explained with reference to two issues or to some combination of both. On
The rebirth of the Nigerian Left?
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/the-rebirth-of-the-nigerian-left
Even as a phrase, “The Nigerian Left” might sound paradoxical. What has the world’s Moët drinking capital and
Sudan in Berlin
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/sudan-in-berlin
There are fourteen Sudanese restaurants in Berlin. The newest of these, a café called Kush, opened a few
The idea of a borderless world
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/the-idea-of-a-borderless-world
As the 21st century unfolds, a global renewed desire from both citizens and their respective states
Renewing South Africa’s economic policy discourse
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/renewing-south-africas-economic-policy-discourse
In 2018, the South African economy slipped into a technical recession. StatsSA recently reported that 69,000 jobs were shed between
The disastrous road of private prisons
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/the-disastrous-road-of-private-prisons
Last month Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed measures to restructure the Kenyan prison system. The move
Youth revive resistance in Sudan
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/youth-revive-resistance-in-sudan
When we talk of the crisis of governance in Sudan, the focus is usually limited to the incompetence and corruption
How did objects come to be in museums and who is entitled to own them?
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/how-did-objects-come-to-be-in-museums-and-who-is-entitled-to-own-th
There are over 60,000 objects from Africa, the Americas, Oceania and South-East Asia in the collection
The film about nowhere
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/10/the-film-about-nowhere
“Invisible City [Kakuma],” a film by Belgian director Lieven Corthouts, begins with the tagline “can you build a home in