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In production from Back Page, a film adaptation of Wole Soyinka's novel, Ake. :
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An 2010 environment 360 Fred Pearce report:
A simmering dispute over who owns the waters of the River Nile is heating up. From its headwaters in Ethiopia and the central African highlands to the downstream regional superpower Egypt, the Nile flows through 10 nations. But by a quirk of British colonial history, only Egypt and its neighbor Sudan have any rights to its water.
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Roman Grynberg teases apart the coffee trade in the Mail & Guardian:
On Germany's dominance:
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Lincoln's Remimagine project:
Join Lincoln and TED as we explore groundbreaking perspectives on art.
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Pankaj Mishra writing in the Guardian:
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via Afrofuturist Affair:
Eaten By The Heart is a video installation and documentary project conceived, produced and directed by Zina Saro-Wiwa. Commissioned by The Menil Collection, Houston and supported by the Houston Museum of African American Culture for the Menil's exhibition The Progress of Love, the piece explores intimacy, heartbreak and love performances among Africans and Diasporans. Eaten By The Heart forms part of Zina's video performance and installation practice which focuses on the mapping of emotional landscapes, its resulting performative behaviors and cross-cultural implications. Zina states:
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For the scholarly and other thinkers:
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Elsie Eyakuze's perceptions on the inadequacies of Nollywood:
About ten years ago, a particularly involved conversation with an African American about depictions of black people in popular culture prompted me to dedicate my senior thesis to exploring depictions of Africans by Hollywood between 1930 and 2001. The only good thing I can say about this exercise is that I met a man from New York with an excellent collection of African cinema. The rest was tears and horror.
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