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9 years ago
City In The Blue Daylight: @Nataal Explores The 16th Dak’art Biennial For Contemporary African Art
City In The Blue Daylight: @Nataal Explores The 16th Dak’art Biennial For Contemporary African Art

City in the Blue Daylight: @Nataal explores the 16th Dak’art Biennial for Contemporary African Art @biennalededakar

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9 years ago

MANIFEST !


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9 years ago
Ornette Coleman And Don Cherry In 1959.

Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry in 1959.

Credit: Lee Friedlander


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9 years ago
Before Tattoos And Piercings, The Amasunzu Hairstyle Was The Epitome Of Individuality In Rwanda. Mother

Before Tattoos and piercings, the Amasunzu hairstyle was the epitome of individuality in Rwanda. Mother always scolded my brothers into cutting off their hair once their beautiful coils started to sprout from the scalp. I think as a child, I bought into the ill-education that ‘’real men’’ should not grow out their hair. Dreadlocks were for the ‘’no good-doers’’ and one millimetre hair peaking on bold were for the ‘’focused’’, goal achievers. Guys, hair is really political. Why do we call our own hairstyles/customs pagan while giving foreigners the holy badge? Even though this look was worn during the pre-colonial times in Africa, to me, this look also reverberates into afro-futuristic elements that I completely adore.

11 years ago

Il faut lire Stuart Hall

Parce que son œuvre et sa pensée on été peu commentées en France. Parce que leur pertinence au regard de l'actualité en font des outils précieux pour comprendre notre époque tourmentée : il faut lire et relire Stuart Hall.

Il Faut Lire Stuart Hall

"La question de la différence n'est pas simple, mais c'est une question sur laquelle nous allons tous devoir nous pencher, parce que, sinon, nous allons nous entretuer." Stuart Hall

in Stuart Hall, Éric Macé, Eric Maigret, Mark Alizart, Editions Amsterdam, mai 2007.

Les éditions Amsterdam ont fourni l'essentiel de la bibliographie en français de ce grand intellectuel disparu le 10 février 2014.

Identités et Cultures. Politiques des cultural studies.

Identités et Cultures 2. Politiques des différences.

Le Populisme autoritaire. Puissance de la droite et impuissance de la gauche au temps du thatchérisme et du blairisme.


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11 years ago

Afrimakers, un projet d'initiation des jeunes aux nouvelles démarches scientifiques

Afrimakers, Un Projet D'initiation Des Jeunes Aux Nouvelles Démarches Scientifiques
Afrimakers, Un Projet D'initiation Des Jeunes Aux Nouvelles Démarches Scientifiques

Images: makerfaire Africa, Lagos, atelier Hackidemia.

« Les mouvements d'ouverture qui ont caractérisé le web (open source, open innovation, open data, open science, open education) ne concernent plus seulement une avant-garde de programmeurs idéalistes. Ils ont donné naissance, notamment sur les campus américains, à une nouvelle culture de la transmission, de l'apprentissage et de l'innovation. Ils bouleversent aujourd'hui jusqu'aux organisations les plus rigoureuses, y compris la recherche scientifique. De nombreuses activités il y a peu très élitistes, doivent désormais apprendre à s'adresser au plus grand nombre et à puiser dans la force créatrice de ce grand nombre. » François Taddei

Hackidemia est un principe de « laboratoire mobile » conçu par Stefania Druga, qui a pour objectif de familiariser les jeunes enfants et les adolescents aux sciences et aux technologies numériques par l’appropriation directe et le jeu. Pour Stefania Druga, qui a été formée à l’ingénierie pédagogique au Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires de l’Université de Paris Descartes dirigé par François Taddei, il est important que les enfants mettent « la main à la pâte »,  expérimentent, créent des robots et des prototypes pour découvrir et comprendre comment ça marche. C’est le passage idéal pour pouvoir accéder par la suite à des technologies plus complexes. Savoirs-faire partagés, créativité, mutualisation, propagation virale sont les bases de son organisation. 

J’ai pu voir Stéfania à l’œuvre à Lagos l’année dernière pendant la Makerfaire Africa lors d’ateliers remarquablement bien menés. Elle revient -au sein d'un groupe élargi- avec le projet Afrimakers qui vise à ouvrir des hubs de formation dans sept villes en Afrique l’année prochaine et lance une campagne de crowdfunding. A suivre donc...


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9 years ago
Weekend Lagos Night Vibes. #lagos #nigeria #shrine #everydayafrica #personalshots #yagazieemezi (at THE

Weekend Lagos night vibes. #lagos #nigeria #shrine #everydayafrica #personalshots #yagazieemezi (at THE NEW AFRIKA SHRINE)

10 years ago

Space and Modernism in Ghanaian Architecture

Space and Modernism in Ghanaian Architecture

Commissioned work by South African freelance photographer Alexia Webster. This particular series is spellbounding in the way that it captures public spaces in Urban Africa.  The series provokes the viewer to reinterpret architectural structures and you feel as though you are caught in between the present, past and future where the objects in the photos appear to be both geometrically ordered and…

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9 years ago

"I don't write because I was segregated and humiliated and dispossessed. I write in spite of that." - Toni Morrison

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11 years ago
Frances Bodomo | Writer/Director

Frances Bodomo | Writer/Director

Frances Bodomo is a Ghanaian filmmaker who grew up in Ghana, Norway, California, and Hong Kong before moving to New York City to study film at Columbia University (BA) and the Tisch School of the Arts (MFA). Her goal is to make conceptually strong films that bring fresh African images to the international forefront. 

Her first short film, Boneshaker (starring Oscar-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis), premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and played at over 20 film festivals including Telluride, SXSW, LA Film Fest, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Her latest short film, Afronauts (recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant & Spike Lee Fellowship), will premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. She is developing the feature version of the film. 

She was most recently accepted into the 2014 Berlin Talents program. @tobogganeer

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associationxamxam - African digital perspectives
African digital perspectives

"Of whom and of what are we contemporaries? And, first and foremost, what does it mean to be contemporary?" Giorgio Agamben, Qu’est-ce que le contemporain?, Paris, Rivages, 2008. Photo: Icarus 13, Kiluanji Kia Henda

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