#africa_rising

#Africa_Rising documentary

From Clover films and film maker #Jamie_Doran, comes a documentary examining the failure of western policies towards Africa and rethinking the role of western aid workers on the continent.

Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Africa Rising takes a look at the benefits of ’Self Help’ in Ethiopia, a country potentially rich in resources, looking to find its own way out of poverty.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYS7T9UMrsA

Come ride with Malitia Malimob
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/come-ride-with-malitia-malimob

Africa is a Country ran a profile on #Somalia-via-Seattle rap duo Malitia Malimob two years ago. On the heals of the release of their latest album, #Seattle-based journalist Devon Leger sat.....

#MUSIC_PAGE #Africa_Rising #Afropolitans #East_Africa #hip_hop #immigration #USA

“An African City,” the #web_series about five single women in #Accra, #Ghana
▻http://africasacountry.com/on-that-youtube-drama-series-about-five-single-women-in-accra-ghana

For the last few weeks social #MEDIA has been abuzz with comments about a new web series set in Accra called #An_African_City. The series tells the story of the ’Afropolitan Returnee’ and as one viewer aptly put it: it is “Sex and the City meets Americanah where she [the book’s protagonist] goes back to Lagos.” Though not as finely tuned.

#VIDEO #Africa_Rising #Afropolitans #Girlfriends #Sex_and_the_City

Africa and the Future: An Interview with #Achille_Mbembe
▻http://africasacountry.com/africa-and-the-future-an-interview-with-achille-mbembe

Within a short period of time, the global, corporate discourse on Africa has swapped a refrain of hopelessness with a near eschatological discovery of a new el dorado — a place of gold from which global capital hopes to regain its lost mojo. Africa is a Country has debunked the discourse of an ‘#Africa_Rising’ […]

#Business #HISTORY #POLITICS #African_Diaspora #African_middle_class #Mineral_exploitation #social_inequalities

Against the Gospel of “#Africa_Rising”
▻http://africasacountry.com/against-the-gospel-of-africa-rising

Almost ten years ago, Binyavanga Wainana mocked the relentless bashing of Africa for what it is: ignorance. Nowadays, however, a new gospel could use similar deriding: “tell them six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa; drop names like Aliko Dangote and Isabel Dos Santos alongside Magatte Wade and Bethlehem […]

#HISTORY #MEDIA