#On_Safari
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For all the serious stuff we wrote or filmed about, tweeted or Facebooked this year (we’ll have a “Blogging Gold of 2015” in the new year, promise), this was undoubtedly.....
#On_Safari
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For all the serious stuff we wrote or filmed about, tweeted or Facebooked this year (we’ll have a “Blogging Gold of 2015” in the new year, promise), this was undoubtedly.....
Hipsters Dont Dance Top World Carnival Collabs of 2015
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After doing a year of monthly roundups for the best in the World Carnival sound in 2015, we have noticed that #Afropop in particular has had a stellar year. Perhaps most.....
#MUSIC_PAGE #South_Africa #Nigeria #Ghana #Giggs #Wizkid #Wande_Coal #UK #edanos #timaya #frenchy_le_boss #patoranking #ayo_jay #leriq #runtown #kwamz_and_flava #r2bees #fetty_wap
Fanon at Ninety
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“In no way is it up to me to prepare for the world coming after me,” #Frantz_Fanon writes in his classic first book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952). “I.....
AIAC recommends, #Books of #2015
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Back by popular demand after last year’s blockbuster, we’ve surveyed our trove of editors, contributors and co-conspirators to bring you a round-up of the books we most savored in 2015......
The Unrest in #Ethiopia
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/the-unrest-in-ethiopia
At least 75 people have been killed in weeks of student-led protests across Ethiopia’s Oromia region and federal authorities have imposed curfews in several towns and deployed troops in what looks like a state of emergency. In a statement on Friday, the U.S. State Department.....
The Return of Winnie Mandela
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On October 22, a week after the #FeesMustFall student protests began to surge across South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela told the public to expect her arrival. “I will be joining my.....
#Weekend_Music_Break No.90
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To wrap things up for 2015, next week Africa is a Country will have a few best of lists and long form posts for you to ponder into the New Year.....
The Legend of #John_Chilembwe
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2015 marks a centenary after the Chilembwe uprising against imperial Britain – an activity that is believed to have influenced, in some way, #Marcus_Garvey. Reverend John Chilembwe was born.....
#INEQUALITY_PAGE #Malawi #50_Years_of_African_Independence #Kamuzu_Banda #African_Activist_Archive_Project #100_Years...Reflections
The ANC Women’s League is Dead
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/the-anc-womens-league-is-dead
In October this year, South African artist Ayanda Mabulu unveiled a painting of the country’s President, Jacob Zuma, “The Pornography of Power.” In the graphic painting, Zuma, inside a circus.....
That time an African team played in #Spain’s #La_Liga
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The all-time Spanish Primera División table holds in it remarkable stories of Spanish #Football history. The standings unearth past epochs of preeminence and point to many of the shifts in.....
#Art_Melody raps against the corruption of #hip_hop in #Burkina_Faso
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With his gravely flow gliding over foreboding beats, Art Melody has always been one of the more commanding voices out of and for West African Hip Hop. And with his.....
Does the #Gates_Foundation do more harm than good?
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In July 2010, I attended the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. Representatives of the Gates Foundation’s HIV team set-up shop inside the venue with a private conference room. For.....
The struggle for #Afrodescendant rights
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In the short span since its inception, the Latin American Afrodescendant movement has had an extraordinary impact on the formulation of anti-racism policy in Latin America and beyond. Its origins.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #race #racism #United_States #Harvard #Afro-Latinos #Santiago_Conference
Anti-racism in Latin America discussion arrives at #Harvard
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A Symposium entitled “Afrodescendants: Fifteen Years after Santiago. Achievements and Challenges” recently took place from December 4th to 5th at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute of the Hutchins Center for.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #race #racism #United_States #Afrodescendant #Afro-Latinos #Santiago_Conference
Remembering Zambia’s Lucy Sichone, conscience of the nation
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Yesterday Zambians woke to the delightful news that the late Lucy Sichone had become the first female Rhodes Scholar to have a portrait in Rhodes House. This is the result.....
Les voix des veuves de Marikana — 2015
▻http://renapas.rezo.net/spip.php?article692
Un #livre très fort sur la tuerie de 2012, où la police a rassemblé et pris au piège les #mineurs en grève (pour des revendications salariales) sur la colline numéro 2, pour ensuite en abattre 34 (souvent dans le dos).
Traduit et introduit par Jacqueline Dérens de l’association Renapas.
▻http://www.humanite.fr/le-combat-vital-des-veuves-de-marikana-587757
▻http://www.bbc.com/afrique/nos_emissions/2015/06/150626_marikana
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/10/MARINOVICH/48282 (#paywall)
éditions ▻http://clara-magazine.fr
#afrique_du_sud #apartheid_continu #mines #extractivisme #exploitation #répression #marikana
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►http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/platinum-public-expressions-of-waiting-with-patience-and-pangas-by-
Bringing #Brazil’s Northeastern culture to the world
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I’ve never been to the #Northeast of Brazil, but I have paid R$5 to walk through the doors of the Feria Nordestina in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone. And doing.....
Bamako Diaries I
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Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would find myself in Malick Sidibé’s iconic studio space – at Porte 632 on Rue 508 in Bamako’s Bagadaji district,.....
The Great Question in Dar es Salaam
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The Great Question in Dar es Salaam is always: incompetence… or conspiracy? The question was first introduced to me by a tired-looking campaign adviser before the October 25th general elections......
The Roots of Africa’s Present Condition
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Today sees the relaunch of the famed #Review_of_African_Political_Economy, this time on the web. We are happy to report that we will partner with #ROAPE and its editor,.....
#ACADEMY_PAGE #African_Intellectuals #Intellect #Left_Politics