Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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A LITTLE ABOUT ME:
Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
A new United Nations report says AIDS-related deaths in Africa are falling while the number of Africans getting treatment for the AIDS virus is on the rise.
The report from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS says the number of people in Africa who receive anti-retroviral drugs increased from less than 1 million in 2005 to more than 7 million last year.
It says AIDS-related deaths fell by nearly a third during that same period, and that new HIV infections are also falling.
Many African countries have taken steps over the past decade to ensure that at least some of their HIV patients have access to treatment.
The report, released Tuesday, notes that Africa continues to be affected by HIV more than any other region in the world. It says the continent accounts for nearly 70 percent of people living with the virus worldwide.
It also notes that in 2011, there were still 1.8 million new HIV infections in Africa, and 1.2 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses.
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.
Hair braiding
Nigeria, 1960s.
The New African Photography - Emeka Okereke: Invisible Borders
“100 years ago, photography was a colonial tool…”
“A photography is a window and not the view” - Emeka Okereke
For decades, the camera was used as a tool through which colonial governments and Western photojournalists alike imposed their own views on Africa through the restrictions of 2D imagery, defining Africa without much, if any, input from those whose faces were plastered on postcards, posters, magazines and media platforms across the world.
Profiling a new crop of African photographers using their lens to transform and inspire both change and development, Al Jazeera opens us up to the world of Nigerian photographer Emeka Okereke, founder of Invisible Borders - a organization that gives ‘African artists a space to define Africa for themselves’. In this video, the group travels on their annual roadtrip within Africa, going from Lagos to Kinshasa, as a means of developing young African artists through the lens of photojournalism.
A must-watch journey.
Al Jazeera South2North host Redi Tlhabi interviews some of Africa’s most influential and powerful women, including Malawian President Joyce Banda - Africa’s second woman president, and South Africa medical doctor, business woman, activist and politician Dr Mamphela Ramphele about their transformative and historical roles.
Powerful and interesting commentary.
Happy Independence Day to all those from Somaliland!
18 May 1991
Stills from Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye’s 1997 feature length film Mossane.
Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer’s son who plans to drag her away. Even her own brother Ngor is in love with her.
However she is in love with Fara, a poor student who has returned to the village, while the university is on strike.
At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.
AFTERNOON LISTENING: Salif Keita - Kuma (Speak)
A personal favourite of mine from Keita, taken off his 1991 album Amen.
Vintage postcard of a man from Eritrea.
Vintage colonial postcard of a woman from Djibouti.
Vintage photographs of Kunama people, a Nilotic ethnic group who live mostly in Eritrea and Ethiopia where they are a minority in both.
Fashions of Nigerian women in 1971 by Donanne Hunter.
A boy in a Fez.
Morocco.
A. Piattoli
Ethiopia’s premier jazz legend Mulatu Astake brings us today’s classic tune, ‘Cha Cha’ - a deep and sultry Cuban-inspired instrumental - played together with The Heliocentrics.
