Dynamic Africa

Dynamic Africa strives to be a multi-media information sharing curated blog that aims to function as a diverse platform for all things African and/or African-related (i.e. Diaspora) - from the classic to the contemporary.

Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".

(Profile Photo by Mama Casset)

DISCLAIMER:

I do not endorse any of the products or opinions shared on this site, nor do I claim any of the work posted here to be my own - except where stated. All posts originally made by me are credited. If no credit is given then the work is either my own/written by me or reblogged from another source.

A LITTLE ABOUT ME:

Student, 24

Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria

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Bukoba, Tanzania.

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Soweto/Sowebo - Martha Cooper

Soweto is a big city on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Sowebo is a small neighbourhood in downtown Baltimore (where ‘The Wire’ is based on).

Like Soweto, Sowebo played a historic role in the fight for racial equality.

After the Tragic assassination of Martin Luther King there was a massive black uprising in Baltimore leaving many white shop owners to flea the area. More than 40 years later most of these establishments remain abandoned. Because of it’s desolate nature, someone decided to nickname the neighbourhood ‘Sowebo’ after Soweto and the name stuck.

DOCUMENTARY: Hillbrow: Between Heaven and Hell (Dir. Clifford Bestall via Al-Jazeera, 2012

South African filmmaker Clifford Bestall traces the history of the once thriving and all-white downtown Johannesburg neighborhood of Hillbrow, through the life stories of various different inhabitants of the now deeply congested melting pot in one of Africa’s most economically prosperous cities.

As I watch this documentary, I can’t help but think Bestall’s narration and use of music paints the very real and painful stories of some of these individuals as romanticized stories of struggle.

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Ivan Bilibin - Cairo 1921

Born in 1876 in Saint Petersburg, Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer. Bilibin is part of the ‘Art Nouveau’ artistic period. He died in 1942.

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