The Audacity of ‘Somali Studies’
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-audacity-of-somali-studies
The recent #CadaanStudies controversy that pitted a German anthropologist, Dr. Markus Hoehne, against young Somali researchers, students and professionals led by Safia Aidid, a Somali-Canadian doctoral student at Harvard, prompted.....
EU should ’open the gates’ to Eritrean refugees
Europe must do more to help the victims of ’virulent human rights abuses’ in ’Africa’s North Korea’, says Barbara Lochbihler.
▻https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/opinion/eu-should-open-gates-eritrean-refugees
#Erythrée #asile #réfugiés #migration #EU
“Black President” – #Mpumelelo_Mcata (of #BLK_JKS)’s directorial debut
▻http://africasacountry.com/black-president-mpumelelo-mcatas-of-blk-jks-directorial-debut
In his inaugural project as filmmaker, Mpumelelo Mcata (guitarist of the South African alt-rock group, BLK JKS) steps away from the familiar territory of making music to present us Black.....
Israel will deport Eritrean, Sudanese refugees to Africa under new policy
Authorities believe there is no legal barrier to forcing Eritrean and Sudanese citizens to leave Israel for a third country that is not their native country – even if this is done against their will.
The Other White Saviors: Media’s Faith in the South African #mercenaries Fighting Boko Haram in #Nigeria
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-other-white-savior-international-medias-faith-in-the-south-afri
In the weeks leading up to the Nigerian election this weekend (official results expected sometime today), Reuters stirred up a lot of speculation with a report which claims the Abuja.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Executive_Outcomes #JOURNALISM #South_Africa
#WHITEHISTORYMONTH: The FBI’s obsession with African-American Literature
▻http://africasacountry.com/whitehistorymonth-the-fbis-obsession-with-african-american-literatu
In today’s installment of #WhiteHistoryMonth scholar and novelist Jacinda Townsend reviews William Maxwell’s new book, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (2015) “That old FB eye/Tied.....
#WHITEHISTORYMONTH: Was Cecil Rhodes really an entrepreneurial genius? #Zambia says no
▻http://africasacountry.com/whitehistorymonth-was-cecil-rhodes-really-an-entrepreneurial-genius
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the students at the University of Cape Town whose #RhodesMustFall campaign has forced us to reengage and debate, in a new and.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #British_South_Africa_Company #Cecil_John_Rhodes
So What Happens #AfterRhodesFalls ?
▻http://africasacountry.com/so-what-happens-afterrhodesfalls
“My brother, please come and join us.” These were Chumani Maxwele’s disarming words that drew me in from being a curious observer of the student action at the statue of.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY ##RhodesMustFall #POLITICS #South_Africa #University_of_Cape_Town
#Nakhane_Toure’s Violent Streak
▻http://africasacountry.com/nakhane-toures-violent-streak
Nakhane Touré’s itching to make some noise. His acoustic guitar-strumming fingers are ready to shred some shrewd chords on the electric. He wants to scare sixteen year olds and piss.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Johannesburg #MUSIC #Nomisupasta #Nomsa_Mazwai
#Karim_Wade, #Senegal’s “Mister 15%” Goes to Jail
▻http://africasacountry.com/karim-wade-senegals-mister-15-goes-to-jail
Monday 23 March 2015 was set to be the day of reckoning in Senegal. The presiding judge of the Court for Repression of Illicit Enrichment (CREI) delivered the verdict on.....
#RhodesMustFall : The View from #Zimbabwe
▻http://africasacountry.com/rhodesmustfall-the-view-from-zimbabwe
Cecil John Rhodes couldn’t have imagined, when he was setting up the template for Apartheid and furthering British imperialism in Africa over a century ago, that one day a statue.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #colonialism #EDITORIAL #John_Cecil_Rhodes #POLITICS #South_Africa
The Chronic presents a new cartography for Africa
▻http://www.contemporaryand.com/blog/exhibition/the-chronic-presents-a-new-cartography-for-africa
The Chronic presents a new cartography for Africa
Chimurenga, South Africa
Since its launch in 2011, every edition of the Chronic has engaged, forcefully, with the question: When will the new emerge – and if it is already here, how do we decipher it? But no edition has addressed this query with as much urgency as our current project on cartographies.
Broadly, the project contests the notion of the ‘failed state’ mainstreamed at the peak of the structural adjustments of the late 1980s, to justify Western interventionism in the so-called developing world. This notion does not exist in isolation; it is inextricably tied to the idea of development and the resulting instrumentalist logic in which our imagination seems imprisoned. These are conceptual frameworks that we, Western-educated Africans who came of age during the 90s, have absorbed. But our reality refuses to be mapped only by GDP, scales, set squares and compasses; it also requires hands, feet and hearts. And memory.
We understand the role of cartography as a tool of imperialism. However, we ask: what if maps were made by Africans for their own use, to understand and make visible their own realities or imaginaries? How does it shift the perception we have of ourselves and how we make life on this continent? We don’t have an easy answer, nor will we find one alone. We are collaborating with Kwani?. Together we’ve invited writers and artists to produce this new language, in words and images.
Naaan - j’allais le poster... Allez savoir pourquoi, je fais une recherche sur #cartographie_radicale à tout hasard et évidemment je tombe sur @reka qui m’a devancé - bon, ça va c’est @reka, je ne suis pas déshonoré d’arriver après lui en la matière !
Dommage que les cartes de la publication gratuite soient dans des définitions aussi basses...
@liotier En fait on les connait bien, on a collaboré avec Chimurenga plusieurs fois depuis plusieurs années et on les aime beaucoup, et on aime beaucoup ce qu’ils font.
SI tu leur demande directement, je suis sur qu’ils seront très heureux de fournir des images en meilleure définition.
Ce qui me rend un peu triste, c’est que l’année dernière, ils nous ont contacté pour qu’on les aide à créer les cartes de ce projet, et qu’on a pas pu le faire parce qu’on avait déjà trop d’engagements :( et maintenant, on regrette vachement.
Bean breakthrough bodes well for climate change challenge | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/25/heat-resistant-bean-climate-change-cgiar
Earlier in the week, protestors gathered outside the London office of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to demonstrate against a meeting they said would promote corporate interests in Africa’s seed sector.
Dangling a cage full of seeds in front of passersby, they yelled, “Come and free the seeds!” before smashing open the cage, which they said symbolised the corporate takeover of Africa’s seed markets.
As seeds spilled on to the pavement, the meeting, hosted by the Gates Foundation and the US Agency for International Development (USAid), promoted production and distribution in Africa’s seed sector. The attendees were listed as key donor organisations, private seed companies and agricultural research centres, but did not include any groups representing farmers, according to a leaked document seen by the Guardian.
The Gates Foundation and USAid have said they are working to improve food security in the world’s poorest countries. USAid’s flagship programme, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, has been criticised for requiring African governments to change laws and policies in favour of businesses.
#semences #climat #biotechnologie #Fondation_gates #business #nasan
#open_letter to #60_Minutes regarding its reporting on Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/open-letter-to-60-minutes-regarding-its-reporting-on-africa
Dear Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of CBS 60 Minutes, We, the undersigned, are writing to express our grave concern about the frequent and recurring misrepresentation of the African continent by 60.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Ebola #Jeff_Fager #Lara_Logan #Liberia
It’s not just about Cecil John Rhodes
▻http://africasacountry.com/its-not-just-about-cecil-john-rhodes
In the past week I received an email from my alma mater requesting the University of Cape Town (UCT) alumni to comment on the Student Representative Council’s calls for the.....
#Nicholas_Kristof Discovers #Angola
▻http://africasacountry.com/nicholas-kristof-discovers-angola
The New York Times’s white savior extraordinaire is at again! The man we love to hate to write about has discovered Angola, and Isabel dos Santos (never mind that much had.....
NGO accuses EU company of illegal African land grabs
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24680-ngo-accuses-eu-company-of-illegal-african-land-grabs
European food companies are illegally grabbing land from smallhold farmers in Africa as part of the #G8 New Alliance project, says an Action Aid report published this month
Funded by the EU, European and US governments, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition promotes public-private agricultural partnerships with the aim of improving food security. An estimated €7.57bn will be invested in 10 African partner countries as part of the project.
Yet Action Aid conducted an investigation into one of New Alliance flagship projects - Swedish company EcoEnergy’s plans to develop a sugarcane plantation in Tanzania – and has condemned it as an illegal land grab.
The NGO said that similar land grabs have also happened in #Nigeria and #Mozambique to make way for rice and sugarcane plantations.
#terres #nasan #canne_à_sucre #riz #tanzanie
The Italian hotelier representing #Kenya at the #Venice_Biennale
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-italian-hotelier-representing-kenya-at-the-venice-biennale
How has an Italian hotelier, albeit one who has long-standing ties to Malindi, managed to take over the Kenyan Pavillion at the 2015 Venice Biennale? #Armando_Tanzini has lived on the Kenya coast.....
The Italian Hustler representing #Kenya at the Venice Biennale
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-italian-hustler-representing-kenya-at-the-venice-biennale
Why has an Italian hotelier, albeit one who has long-standing ties to Malindi, been appointed the “curator” of the Kenyan Pavillion at the 2015 Venice Biennale? Armando Tanzini is mostly.....
Trapped and Forgotten: Libya’s Migrant Jails (Part 2)
As Libya descends further into civil war and lawlessness, migrants from Africa and the Middle East continue to journey to the country’s coast in search of smugglers to take them across the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe.
►https://news.vice.com/video/trapped-and-forgotten-libyas-migrant-jails-part-2
#détention_administrative #rétention #migration #asile #réfugiés #Libye
Out with the Old: Exploring the myth of the ‘new’ #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/out-with-the-old-exploring-the-myth-of-the-new-south-africa
In the past few weeks there has been much consternation about the de facto existence of the dompas in the Western Cape community of Worcester. The dreaded dompas was a.....
Does the Development Industry really need new clothes?
▻http://africasacountry.com/does-development-really-need-new-clothes
If you don’t work in the international development field, it may have escaped your attention but we currently find ourselves in the dawn of a new global development epoch. As.....
Under the radar, yet Guinea Bissau’s #Sana_Na_N’Hada is one of Africa’s most important filmmakers today
▻http://africasacountry.com/sana-na-nhada-guinea-bissaus-revolutionary-filmmaker-is-one-of-afri
In a cinematic career spanning some four plus decades Sana Na N’Hada has borne witness to the best and the worst times in #Guinea-Bissau. He joined Amìlcar Cabral’s revolutionary army.....
#whitehistorymonth : Britain’s Racist Election
▻http://africasacountry.com/whitehistorymonth-britains-racist-election
Last night, Twitter in the UK was all over a Channel 4 documentary, “Britain’s Racist Election.” It tells the story of the election of racist Conservative politician #Peter_Griffiths (pictured above).....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #David_Cameron #Ed_Miliband #George_Newey #Ku_Klux_Klan #Lynton_Crosby #Malcolm_X #Michael_Howard #Musa_Okwonga #NHS #Niall_Ferguson #Nigel_Farage #Smethwick_1964 #W.E.B._Du_Bois #White_History_Month
