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I am blogging here. Please bookmark my new site. – Sean [view entry]
I am going on vacation from Africa is a Country. It’s supposed to be summer in New York City–that’s if it can stop raining–so I am also taking a break from the site. BTW, I changed my day job: If you read this site, you’ll know I have taught for... [view entry]
That’s essentially the conclusion of a long piece by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal in the most recent issue of World Affairs Journal about the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. They describe his controversial past in Argentina, his media-driven personality, his disastrous management of his office, how... [view entry]
Clip of Shonibare from TV series, Art 21 (William Kentridge also stars). See also this profile of Shonibare in The New York Times. A retrospective of his work opens at the Brooklyn Museum this week. [view entry]
A few weeks ago (at a screening arranged by the International Documentary Foundation) I saw “Rough Aunties,” a film by director Kim Longinotto about a group of women in Durban, South Africa, who work with police to apprehend child rapists and molesters, as well as run a home for abused... [view entry]
The former Zambian President, who was a darling of the West and the Christian right, is in court for defrauding the state while in office. Details of his extravagant lifestyle include the following, are emerging in court: “Mr. Chiluba owned more than 100 pairs of size 6 shoes, many affixed... [view entry]
Retrospective of his art the Brooklyn Museum through September 20, 2009. [view entry]
Senegalese-born N’Dour talks about his career and “I Bring What I Love“, the new documentary film about his music, on Canadian TV program, Studio Q. (I went to see the film earlier tonight at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: the film is built around N’Dour’s recording of the album, “Egypt,”... [view entry]
Photograph by (Canadian-Briton) Jonathan Hyams “Xolile Wiseman is shown at the start of Anti Retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS. He is photographed holding his ID booklet as a point of reference. Patients beginning treatment now, are likely to have contracted HIV during the mid to late 90s’ –The ID photographs, reissued... [view entry]
