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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Inter Milan has been hit with a $58,600 by UEFA after being found guilty of “improper conduct” following allegations its fans racially abused Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor.
The Togolese striker, who scored a precious away goal to take Tottenham through to the next round during last month’s Europa League tie, appeared to be subjected to monkey chants, while a fan was also seen with an inflatable banana.
Inter won the match 4-1 but crashed out of Europe’s second-tier competition on the away goals rule with Adebayor’s strike proving crucial.
The Italian club was also charged with “insufficient organization” and “throwing of missiles and/or fireworks.”
Inter has already been punished in domestic competition after the Italian football authorities found its fans guilty of racially abusing former players Mario Balotelli and Sulley Muntari, who now play for fierce rival AC Milan.
The club was fined $65,500 for the incident which took place in March, while it was also forced to pay out $22,700 after fans sang racist chants about Balotelli during a Serie A game against Chievo.
Happy Independence Day to Togo!
On 27 April 1960, in a smooth transition, Togo severed its constitutional ties with France, shed its UN trusteeship status, and became fully independent under a provisional constitution with Olympio as president.
A new constitution in 1961 established an executive president, elected for 7 years by universal suffrage and a weak National Assembly. The president was empowered to appoint ministers and dissolve the assembly, holding a monopoly of executive power. In elections that year, from which Grunitzky’s party was disqualified, Olympio’s party won 90% of the vote and all 51 National Assembly seats, and he became Togo’s first elected president.
Models Liya Kebede & David Agbodji photographed by Mikael Jansson for an editorial in Vogue Japan, ‘The Vanishing Underground’.
Joseph Amedokpo
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Country: Togo
Style: Abstract personification, contemporary, magical realism, fine art
Medium: oil on canvas
Fun Fact: He is a simple man, an ecofriendly simple man; Amedokpo paints using locally available oils and his canvases are recycled flour sacks, washed and stretched. His studio forms part of his family compound; a tin roof shelters him from the African sun and seasonal rains.
Quote:
Red is my favorite color,” says Joseph. “From red I can make so many other colors. It is very important in our traditions, too. Red is the color of blood, which is life, and our soil, which feeds us. And red is one of the main colors of many of our gods, like Mamiwata, who can heal the sick.
Paintings
1. Shango- God of Thunder
2. Devil’s cooking pot
3. Titleknown
4. The Initiation of the Voudou maidens
5. Birds KIngdom
6. Angere stilt dancers
Dell picked Joseph’s paintings for their Computer covers, the statement was: His paintings touch on the failures and weaknesses of people, as well as their core strength, their hopes. The aids crisis in Africa. How all kings eventually dance naked, brought down to earth with the rest of us.
His art covers a wide swath of the old and the new, in this area, and he has seen some success as his paintings are increasingly sought out and collected internationally. He hopes his participation in Project Red will expose his art to more people, and he is glad that his paintings will be helping fight aids in Africa.
A map showing the countries that have made it to the quarterfinals (yellow) of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament.
They are:
- Mali
- South Africa
- Cape Verde
- Cote D’Ivoire/Ivory Coast
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Burkina Faso
- Togo
South Africa is the only country outside of West Africa to make it to this stage.
Marché de Lomé. Vendeuse de pâte à beignet
c1945-1950
Painted Peak milk advertising wall mural in Lome, Togo
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Sam Todo, a student in Togo, builds a robot made out of old TV parts and used electronics.
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A week of activity centred around the worship of voodoo culminates when people from across Benin, as well as Togo and Nigeria, descend on Ouidah for the annual voodoo festival.
Voodoo is more than a belief system, it is a complete way of life, including culture, philosophy, language, art, dance, music and medicine.
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“Self-portraiture is a way of writing without words. My aim is to reveal the deepest parts of myself.”
Hélène Amouzou plays with the photographic medium to create ephemeral and ghostly self-portraits. She captures herself or her belongings (often her clothes) in an empty room with peeling floral wallpaper. In many of the images she includes a suitcase as a recurrent symbol of her state of flux and transit. The photographs were taken during a two year period when Amouzou was seeking asylum in Belgium and waiting for her official residency visa.
Amouzou acknowledges the influence of American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958 – 81) but she produces her own distinctive and haunting imagery, which speaks of the contemporary issue of the displacement of people and those in exile. She works with film rather than digital media, preferring the effects of chance and serendipity and she exploits the use of long exposures.
These photographs reveal a constant questioning and search for the subject’s identity. Notions of freedom and legitimacy are explored in a world of bureaucracy and inequalities. Amouzou captures feelings of exclusion and feeling stigmatised by the lengthy official process. Those with permanent residency rights can only imagine the insecurity and daily worry of the possibility of being sent back to an unsafe place and the photographs reveal this sense of impermanence. Her ghostly image haunts each frame and hovers in the no man’s land between absence and presence.
Biography
Born in 1969 in Togo. She now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She is currently studying at the Academy of Drawing and Visual Arts of Molenbeek-St-Jean.
Her practice is photography based.Previous shows include Bozar de Mons in Belgium in 2011/12; Faculté Universitaire Saint Louis in Belgium in 2012; Centre de la Papisserie in Belgium in 2012; Photoquai 2011, Paris; Marché de la photo, Brussels 2010.
Top: A mother in Ganvie, Benin
Bottom: A Bassar mother in Togo
Batammaliba (West Africa, primarily Togo & Benin) Architecture: “The north-south gender division within each house is reinforced by gender-related activites, rituals, and the placement of the deities’ shrines.
The second house division is the use of upstairs, female space and downstairs, male space.
Finally the house is divided into the front and outside, men part and into the back and interior, women part.
All three gender-associated divisions are explained through inversion that is seen to have a religious base. What becomes clear is that, in this spatial inversion, the house is defined primarily as a residence of the gods and deceased elders. Only secondarily, and through inversion, is the house identified with humans.”
-The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression
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King Mensah - Enouledjo
Music from one of #Togo’s most popular musicians.
Happy Independence day to all the people of #Togo!
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DynamicAfrica
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