Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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The BlackStar Film Festival is a celebration of cinema focused on work by and about people of African descent in a global context. BlackStar highlights films that are often overlooked from emerging, established, and mid-career directors, writers and producers working in narrative, documentary, experimental and music video filmmaking.
This year, we are launching our first annual short screenplay competition.
http://blackstarfest.org/screenplay/
Enter for your chance to win $2,500 to produce a short film based on your short screenplay!
Submit your short screenplay online by the June 7, 2013 deadline.
Thanks so much for helping get the word out!
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Only a few days ‘til you can buy Canadian-Ghanaian artist Kae Sun’s sophomore album AFRIYIE digitally (May 28th). But in the meantime, OkayAfrica has made the album available for streaming in its entirety. Yes, all ten tracks including his incredible and anthem-like song When the Pot (which I absolutely love).
The rest of the album is full of catchy sing-a-long tunes with guitar-led rhythms in the same vein as When the Pot, such as Heart Healing Pulse and Weh-Weh, striking heart-felt emotive songs like Burden of Love, Lead Loaded Letters and Ship and the Globe, and the socially conscious driven Lion Unleashed that shows the true dynamism of Kae Sun’s voice.
A cohesive and well put-together effort from Kae Sun, AFRIYIE is definitely an album to add to your collection.
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When I passed the windows yesterday
I passed into a night buttered
With stars like the yellow petals
Of the acacia on the black soil
On which it stands.
I plunged into a treachery of winding lanes
Into an eclipse of the sun.
I heard murmurs and groans of childbirth
And could not tell
From which unhinged door they came:
The doors were too close together.Three neighbours met,
And after a hurried, “I give you rest”
The two young men stood aside for the old man
To pass and then picked their way
In the opposite direction towards the alley
On the left.
They were thieves who robbed with violence
But still they stood aside for the old man
And he thanked them.In a bereaved world questions and comments
Fall on unhearing ears.
Only silence, understanding and
Belonging can put
A blind man’s stick in the hands
Of a searcher in that night.The crumbling walls have leaned
On their chests for decades!
The toll of breathing has shredded
Their lungs, and their eyes are sore
With the smoke of the wicker lamps.
And now we all stand at the edge
Of an abyss
Afraid to plunge headlong, or
Return to the dark of the night with them!
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Three female cleaners walk back after a tough morning cleaning the beach. Though the gov’t pays $250 per cleaner per month, only $50 a month reaches them as salary, and even that sometimes delays for up to 5 months. Photo by Nana Kofi Acquah @everydayafrica @ghtog #Ghana #Corruption #CheapLabour
Zimbabwe: 1980s
Miners from Zimbabwe and their families. From “Family of Miners” series by Milton Rogivin
This series portrays miners in ten nations.
In 1962, Milton and Anne Rogovin traveled to Appalachia for the first of nine visits. Photographs were taken of mountains devastated by mining operations as well as of miners at their work places and in the neighborhoods where they worked. Milton captured the effects of Black Lung disease and unemployment.
In the “Family of Miners” series, workers were photographed with hard hats and lanterns and coal blackened faces, at rest, in below-ground changing rooms, or on elevators descending into the mines. When not at work, they were photographed at festivals, at local pubs, or at home with their families or with their pets.
Photos from, “The Essence of Mauritius” by ManLi Que
Most people who’ve never been to Mauritius think of it as a paradise island with fabulous beaches made of soft silky sand, turquoise clear sea water, magnificent mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, exotic fauna and flora… I’m not saying it’s not the case, it is very true; but many don’t get to see enough of the other aspects of the island, like the local people and their day-to-day life, the country’s ethnic and cultural diversity, the interesting customs and traditions, rural and urban landscapes and architecture marked by its history, etc.
With this album, my intention is to document all the elements of the island, including those that are not always showcased on the postcards, and to show you the authentic richness and beauty of the island. I hope to wander around in many different places, from the popular areas to the little corners, if I have enough courage to, camera in hand and curiosity in my eyes, and attempt to capture the real essence of this island, even if essence is probably subjective… Very often, I would capture a moment in time of the reality that is around us in our every-day life. Capturing life as it happens, in a natural environment, whereby there is no bias and no ulterior motive behind the image, is what I think expresses the true essence.
Photographs of daily life in the cities of Djenne and Timbuktu, Mali, taken by photographer Sebastien Lanelle.
2009.
Happy Independence Day to all Eritreans everywhere!
Today, May 24th, marks the 22nd celebration since the East African nation of Eritrea gained its full independence from Ethiopia, after having previously been colonized by Italy in 1885 - who they gained independence from in 1941, and England - who they gained independence from in 1951. Before the Italian occupation of what is now modern-day Eritrea, the Ottoman Empire maintained control over much of this territory between 1557–1885.
Eritrean history is home to some of the oldest civilizations on the continent. Together with northern Somalia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptiansas Punt (or “Ta Netjeru,” meaning god’s land), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC. The ancient Puntites were a nation of people that had close relations with Pharaonic Egypt during the times of Pharaoh Sahure and Queen Hatshepsut.
Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D’mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia. Its successor, the Kingdom of Aksum, emerged around the 1st century BC or 1st century AD and grew to be, according to the Persian philosopher Mani described Axum as one of the four greatest civilizations in the world, along with China, Persia, and Rome.
Mozambique: Mining Resettlements Disrupt Food, Water
Many of the 1,429 households resettled to make way for Vale and Rio Tinto’s international coal mining operations in Tete province, Mozambique have faced serious disruptions in their access to food, water, and work, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Mozambican government’s speed in approving mining licenses and inviting billions of dollars in investment has outstripped the creation of adequate safeguards to protect directly affected populations.
These communities have experienced periods of food insecurity or, when available, dependence on short-term food assistance financed by Vale and Rio Tinto.
Photo: The farmland provided to Senolia S., upon her resettlement to Cateme, was reclaimed by its original cultivators. She did not receive any replacement land or additional assistance and finally scraped enough money together to rent a plot of rocky, untilled land. © 2012 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch
Felix Idubor (1928-1991) was a Nigerian sculptor from Benin, part of a group of young artists in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s who raised awareness of the African artistic tradition at the time of decolonisation and independence.
He is considered one of the pioneers of Nigerian contemporary art.
The exhibition displays this photograph of his 1965 bas-relief for Independence House in Lagos.
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