#MovieNight
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This is the first edition of a new weekly series of posts/listicles we’ll be doing to keep you up to speed with the world of African cinema/TV/online video content. We’ll.....
#MovieNight
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/movienight
This is the first edition of a new weekly series of posts/listicles we’ll be doing to keep you up to speed with the world of African cinema/TV/online video content. We’ll.....
#Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/xenophobia-after-the-parisattacks-isnt-limited-to-boneheads-like-ru
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, several news-outlets reported that one of the terrorists may have entered Europe as a refugee. This made global headlines,.....
A book for George Clooney and college classrooms on #humanitarianism
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/a-book-for-george-clooney-and-college-classrooms-on-humanitarianism
In the world of transnational activism, there is a pre- and post-#Kony2012 era. In fact, #Kony2012 constituted a cathartic moment, a psychotic disturbance – both literally and figuratively – that unleashed.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #advocacy #Books #Celebrity #Literature #reviews
#Asking_for_a_friend
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The big questions that animated our friend this week: Facebook, thanks for the ‘Paris Safety Check.’ Can we have one for Baghdad, Beirut and Borno too? Why is a public.....
The Stade de #France–A History in Fragments
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/the-stade-de-france-a-history-in-fragments
The French national team player Patrice Evra was dribbling up the pitch when the second bomb exploded. Two minutes earlier, the same thing had happened: a loud, resonating explosion heard.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #FOOTBALL_IS_A_COUNTRY #FRONT_PAGE ##ParisAttacks #Paris #State_de_France
Sex, beer, and Ndombolo: an #interview with Fiston Mwanza Mujila
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/sex-beer-and-ndombolo-an-interview-with-fiston-mwanza-mujila
Tram 83 is Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s dazzling first #Novel. It follows an idealist writer named Lucien in an unnamed African mining town governed by global capitalism’s worst impulses. In the.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #Books #Congo #DRC #Literature
Catching up with #Noura_Mint_Seymali
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/catching-up-with-noura-mint-seymali-and-her-band
In the dark, beautifully backlit confines of The Triple Door in Seattle, Noura Mint Seymali was holding court. A smallish woman from #Mauritania, she ruled the stage with a fiery.....
A short #History of helping far-off peoples
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/a-short-history-of-helping-far-off-peoples
In the past two centuries, as technologies of mass media have advanced, so too has our knowledge of the suffering of distant others. It is through this knowledge that the.....
Mathare si ya Mamako! (Mathare is not your mother’s!) and other insults for justice
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/mathare-si-ya-mamako-mathare-is-not-your-mothers-and-other-insults-
In June 2015, an Afro-capitalist owner of a not-so-popular radio station grabbed one of the only playing fields in the densely populated poor urban settlement of Kosovo, Mathare. It was.....
Anti-Dominicanism, a No Lesser Evil
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/anti-dominicanism-a-no-lesser-evil
In the recent crisis involving #Haiti and the #Dominican_Republic, the world seems to be lacking stories that show Dominicans in identification with human rights or #blackness. In the absence.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Caribbean #deportation #immigration #race
After Tanzania’s national election, things get complicated in Zanzibar
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In April 1964, following a racially charged revolution in Zanzibar, its new leaders negotiated a union between the Zanzibari islands, with their 300,000 people, and the country of Tanganyika on.....
The Hooligans
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A black coated Nylophor fence transverses the Union Building lawns the day #FeesMustFall marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The fence creating a ceremonial space for protest below and,.....
Beyond the Boundary
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/beyond-the-boundary-the-politics-of-race-in-south-african-cricket
On November, 10th 1991, after more than 20 years of isolation from international #cricket, the South African cricket team played a One Day International against India in Kolkata. Nelson Mandela.....
‘We Will Win Peace’ skillfully debunks many #myths behind #conflict #minerals in the #Congo
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Washington, DC: In front of the White House an activist carries a megaphone facing a crowd. He is visibly agitated, excited as he screams: “We will win peace… in the.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #DRC #Film
Come to the Third #Festejo Pachone in Bogotá
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About five years ago, three friends and I gathered in an apartment in downtown Bogotá, #Colombia, and decided to create an online radio station. We called it #Radio_Pachone. We.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Arts #Bogotá #Capital_de_Festivales #culture #Festejo_Pachone #Festival #Music
Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/ouattaras-electoral-sweep-might-be-a-good-outcome-for-cote-divoire
The contrast between the October 2015 (two Sundays ago) and 2010 presidential #elections in Côte d’Ivoire could not be any starker. In 2010, the incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to.....
#Beasts_of_No_Nation and the child soldier movie genre
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/beasts-of-no-nation-and-the-child-soldier-movie
Distributed by Netflix, American director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s #Film adaptation of Nigerian Uzodinma Iweala’s novel Beasts of No Nation is receiving rapturous praise from mainstream critics in Europe and the.....
What is the university for?
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In the wake #FeesMustFall protests which electrified South Africa one week ago, much has been made about the way in which university’s have been bent to the needs of international capital and.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #FRONT_PAGE #Intellectual_Culture #South_Africa #universities
#AFRICA_IS_A_RADIO : Season 2, Episode 6
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/10/africa-is-a-radio-season-2-episode-6
Africa is a Radio show for October 2015. Sean and Elliot are on a break from the show, so Boima fills in with some new tunes from around the African.....
##FeesMustFall #Brazil #Caribbean #Colombia #South_Africa #Student_Protests #UK_Afrobeats
The Community Video Education Trust
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/10/the-community-video-education-trust
I’ve had a really hard time staying focused for the past couple of weeks, given the current protests in South Africa. Everytime I opened Twitter, I was bombarded by images and.....