May 2012
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Dogon Portraits: Dancers Without Masks Photography...
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We livetweeted our reading of the NY Times piece... →
And yes, the NYT did refer to Africa as a “nation.”
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A place you wish you were...
Audio link via thiscityspace:
Dominant collaborating voice in this work is Em’kal Eyongakpa (Cameroonian media artist. He runs artist centre Khaliland, in Yaounde)
TITLE of PIECE: a place you wish you were…but you’re not MY IDEAS / CONCEPT around work: An intimate telling of experience from a predominantly unfamiliar place / country. An attempt to subvert the acceptance and projection of ‘the...
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If we were called China is a Country...
Back in October 2011, AIAC ran a couple of postsn examining the music video for Coldplay’s “Paradise”—the plot revolved around a elephant’s, or rather a man (lead singer Chris Martin) dressed in an elephant suit, escape from the London zoo to return to his home in Africa. Elephant-Chris Martin smuggled himself aboard a plane to Cape Town where he wandered around on a...
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Binyavanga on why Africa's international image is... →
thecreativelymaladjusted:
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and a past winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, argues that the world has got its image of Africa very badly wrong…
“The truth is, we will never look like what CNN wants us to look like.”
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