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The only time we have ever expressed an interest in football was when we discovered Harry Redknapp's bulldog Rosie was related to our own bulldog, Matilda. We spent a pleasant morning with him at his then footie club comparing notes.
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Another Sundance Film Festival comes to a close, with the usual Awards ceremony celebrating this year's winners. Ahead of the official press release from the festival announcing all of this year's award winners, which will likely come later tonight, here are those winners who are of most interest to this blog, given its focus on African Diaspora cinema: - Congratulations to director Ryan Coogler, his cast and crew, for picking up, not one, but TWO major awards - the 2013 Audience Award in the US Dramatic category, as well as the grand-daddy of them all, the Grand Jury Prize. Beasts of the Southern Wild took home the latter award last...
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As long as Isaiais-the person- is not removed the likelihood of ushering in the process of democratic transition, leave alone implementing the Rule of Law in Eritrea, is almost impossible.
Appealing to him to implement legitimate reforms or extensive liberalization at this stage is a non-starter. Twenty years of costly experience affirm this hard fact. The linchpin holding all other PFDJ actors hostage and waging an unrestrained attack on the forces aspiring democratic transition is the sultanistic tyrant Isaias. In order to create the most favorable circumstance for transforming Eritrea into the land of justice and democracy this linchpin has to be removed.
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Happy New Year, Legion of Fans (LOF). I'm kicking off 2013 with a bit of shameless self promotion in 'Escape' Magazine today (Escape is the travel supplement in various major Sunday newspapers around Australia).
Today's missive is about luxury train travel in South Africa which is something dear to my heart and, if you're read 'IVORY', you'll know a certain train is also very near and dear to Alex the pirate and his lady friend Jane. Enough said.
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For three weeks in the October of 2002, John Allen Muhammad and his 17-year-old companion Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the country with a series of sniper attacks, carried out with lethal accuracy from a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Sedan. Together, they murdered ten people and severely injured three others throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, leaving the rest of the country to ask the question that always arises in the wake of senseless shootings: Why? In Blue Caprice, director Alexandre Moors attempts to answer the question with a cinematic retelling loosely inspired by the real-life events. Starring Isaiah Washington as John and Tequan Richmond as Lee, the film...
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For decades upon decades, there has been the fascinating phenomenon of white people who "want to be black." Only, of course, they don't actually want to be black. They want the apparent cool factor that comes with blackness - the clothes, the music, the rhythm, the permission to use the N-word - without that annoying inconvenience of institutionalized racism. Directors David Andalman and Mariko Munro tackle this idea in Milkshake, their comedy set in a 1990s suburb of Washington, DC, where white teen Jolie Johnson (Tyler Ross) desperately wants to be a brother. Jolie, you see, is about that "thug life," which for him constitutes using black slang,...
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Rwanda: The Tutsi Contradictions - a Response to Jean-Paul Kimonyo
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Good news, and congrats to Andrew Dosunmu, Bradford Young, Danai Gurira, Ron Simons and company! All the details on the acquisition follow in the press release just received (although no specific release date is given yet); read Zeba's Sundance review of the film HERE: Oscilloscope Acquires Critically-Acclaimed Sundance Competition Film "Mother of George" (New York, NY) January 26, 2013-Oscilloscope Laboratories announced today that it has acquired North American rights to Andrew Dosunmu's MOTHER OF GEORGE. The film made its world premiere this past week as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition in Sundance, to widespread critical acclaim and...
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The Somaliland Sun asked me to respond to questions concerning the impact on Somaliland of the U.S. formal recognition of the new Somali government. The paper published my response in its 21 January 2013 edition in an article called Somaliland: Country Urged to Enhance Democratization Process.
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Once again, demonstrating Azonto's global reach, the Azonto London Allstars conquer a myriad of urban landscapes with their indefatigable dance moves to the beat of a mix by DJ Sawa. Above. Next, with hair fit for the most flamboyant players in the African Cup of Nations, we've got Supremos with their new video for "Namorado [...]
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At least 22 people were killed in violent clashes in the Egyptian city of Port Said on Saturday after a court sentenced 21 local people to death over last year's fatal football riots between rival fans.
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In case you thought kuduro--most recently discussed on this blog here, here, and here--is all that Angola's music scene has to offer, you were wrong. Although Angolan death metal is nowhere near as popular as the dance and music style kuduro, it has a place in the nation's fabric. Death metal is no less Angolan (and African) than [...]
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An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced 21 people to death over clashes between rival football fans at Port Said stadium last February that left 74 people dead, in one of the world's deadliest incidents of football violence.
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Egyptian troops were deployed in Suez on Saturday, after violent clashes on the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak left at least seven people dead. President Mohamed Morsi urged citizens to "express opinions peacefully."
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That was a duel between Zambia and Nigeria. Two equally matched opponents facing each other in the Mbombela Stadium. Each team intent on gaining that certain satisfaction. The Super Eagles wanted to cut down the Champions. The Chipolopolos needed to show they were Champions. The game had everything. A woeful penalty miss, an historic penalty [...]
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