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(image @ wikipedia)(L:Anika Noni Rose C: Jill Scott R:Lucien Msamati) The No1 Ladies Detective Agency was aired last night on BBC1 at 9pm and lasted until 10.45pm. I watched it in its’ entirety. Based on the novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the program that aired last night is apparently a... [view entry]
I don’t think I will be going to the hair salon for a long time! I went there a while back, needless to say it was not a great experience. You know that feeling when you go to the hair salon and you feel like the stylist just thinks your... [view entry]
Concrete Loop is cooking up storms ! There has been quite a bit of controversy over claims of homophobic commenters attacking B. Scott, a new columnist on the blogsite. Darian Anderson made a video in defence of B.Scott which was thus posted on Concrete Loop (More about B. Scott later)... [view entry]
(Note: Most people who download these shows/people who live in the US will be way ahead of me but the UK channels took ages to buy the rights to show these progs in the UK!) As a TV addict, it is thus natural for me to watch all the latest... [view entry]
{image found here} For… sake (it’s Good Friday so I am trying to keep this post clean). What the hell is this ? I know people worldwide love American music but if this is the best new US R&B popette, Teyana Taylor, then I am bored out of my mind... [view entry]
Preface: I am a big fan of Fanon and decided to write 2 mini-essays inspired by his book Black Skin, White Masks. Let me all know what you think! Fracture Martinican psychiatrist and writer Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961) notes in his book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ that in reference... [view entry]
The Condition: Re-evaluating the Expression Noire Frantz Fanon declares in Black Skin, White Masks, that “in the Caribbean, this vision of a world is white as no black expression or culture exists”. In a globalised world, is Fanon’s 1952 assessment true? The black American exports like hip-hop have made non-black... [view entry]
Preface: again, more spoilers! Cidade de Deus/City of Godwas break-out Brazilian language film that my friend and I watched in addition to Imitation of Life (discussed in the post prior to this). The film is fantastic; I can’t sing its’ praises enough. What I found very engrossing about this film... [view entry]
(Preface: if you have not seen this film anddon’t want to read any spoilers, avoid this post!) Yesterday night, a friend of mine and I watched a double bill of movies. First we watched the criticially acclaimed City of God, a film that we had both seen before a while... [view entry]
Discussing black people in relation to Britain is very very difficult and almost impossible. That is because Britain is not England, contrary to what many foreigners think. There is N.Ireland, Wales & Scotland to consider. Not to mention that everyone’s experience of being black in the UK is wholly different... [view entry]
