Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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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.
Sweden’s highest musical honour is awarded annually to both a pop performer and classical artist.
The pair will each receive one million kronor (£98,600) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
King Carl XVI Gustaf will present them with their awards at a Stockholm ceremony on 27 August.
The prize is awarded for “exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music”.
The academy recognised Ndour as “not just a singer, but a storyteller, poet, singer of praise, entertainer and verbal historian”.
“With his exceptionally exuberant band Super Etoile de Dakar and his musically ground breaking and political solo albums, Youssou Ndour has worked to reduce animosities between his own religion, Islam, and other religions,” it said.
“His voice encompasses an entire continent’s history and future, blood and love, dreams and power.”
He was last year appointed Senegal’s minister of tourism.
He also owns an influential media group, a night club and a music studio.
Saariaho, who has written chamber music, orchestral works and operas, was praised as “a modern maestro who opens up our ears and causes their anvils and stirrups to fall in love”.
The prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA.
Last year’s winners were US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Other previous winners include Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bjork and Patti Smith.
FASHION 2112: LE FUTUR DU BEAU
Using various scrap and waste raw materials, Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop creates a recyclable and futuristic fashion spread that keenly looks into what style may look like in this dystopian 22nd century setting that provides the backdrop for his creations.
#AFRO-FUTURISM
Photo by Mama Casset
1930s, Sénégal
Photo by Mama Casset
Sénégal
Photo by Mama Casset
Sénégal
Photo by Mama Casset
Sénégal
Photo by Mama Casset
1930s, Sénégal
© Sindika Dokolo-Revue Noire
Les st Louisiennes, St Louis du Sénégal, 1915
“The St Louisians, St Louis, Senegal, 1915”
Watch Ousmane Sembene’s 1975 film Xala in its entirety.
“It is the dawn of Senegal’s independence from France, but as the citizens celebrate in the streets we soon become aware that only the faces have changed. White money still controls the government.
One official, Aboucader Beye, known by the title “El Hadji,” takes advantage of some of that money to marry his third wife, to the sorrow and chagrin of his first two wives and the resentment of his nationalist daughter.
But he discovers on his wedding night that he has been struck with a “xala,” a curse of impotence. El Hadji goes to comic lengths to find the cause and remove the xala, resulting in a scathing satirical ending.” - IMDb
Abdourahmane Sakaly (1926-1988)
Untitled, 1960
Pigment inkjet print, 2011, from original negative
17 x 17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm)Abdourahmane Sakaly, originally from Senegal, moved to Bamako in 1946 and opened a studio there ten years later. According to many Bamakois, Sakaly was the most renowned photographer in the city throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The photographer was the first president of the new photographers’ association, Groupement national des photographes professionels du Mali, founded in 1988, the year of his death.
In the west African country of Senegal, traditional wrestling is as big as football. However, women rarely get a chance to enter the arena.
In Casamance, in the small village of Diembering, the Ricefields’ festival is one of the rare occasions that you can watch ladies try to bring each other to the ground.
Senegalese footballer Demba Ba’s incredible match winning goal scored in today’s Chelsea vs Manchester United match.
Preparing fish
St. Louis, Senegal
May 2006
