Artistic Satire or 21st Century Hottentot Venus?

http://www.racialicious.com/2012/04/18/voices-makode-aj-linde-and-that-cake/#more-21915

Enough is Enough !

With Charles Taylor back in the news and the Kony 2012 campaign  still seared in our brains, I find this  to be the opportune time to  reflect on Senegal’s 2012 Elections and the youth movements that engaged the nation in political action. Lets break the power of one story…

EVENT: The Manning Marable Memorial Conference

Beginning this Thursday : 4/26 – 4/29

Go to the IRAAS website to get the schedule all events are free they simply require an RSVP

Guggenheim’s map--Where is the rest of Africa?

Reblogged from Africa is a Country:

Guest Post by Jennifer Bajorek and Erin Haney
The recent announcement of the Guggenheim Foundation’s new “Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative” bears all of the hallmarks of the present era. It is funded by a bank. It has the word “global” in its title. It claims explicitly to challenge “a Western-centric view of art history,” according to the Foundation’s director, Richard Armstrong, in a piece by Carol Vogel recently published…

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Tinariwen speaks on the coup in Mali

Reblogged from Africa is a Country:

Tuareg musicians Tinariwen, on tour in Europe these days, spent some time in Belgium this weekend. Belgian public broadcaster VRT asked Tinariwen members Eyadou Ag Leche and Mina Walet Oumar what they made of the coup in Mali. It’s a short but useful video interview since most of what we get to read in international media over the past weeks are translations of and interviews with the military commanders of the coup, and then some other wires by foreign journalists based in Bamako.

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The True Size of Africa

Yet somehow it gets lost (neglected) in MESAAS

Swedish Golliwog Cake

Reblogged from Africa is a Country:

By now, it seems, the whole world has seen the picture. The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth, has just cut a piece from the crotch of a cake baked in the image of a distorted African body, complete with golliwog red lips and white eyes. Now, laughing heartily, she’s bent forward as if jokingly feeding a piece of the cake to itself.

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