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Zambian skull found in London art gallery 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The gallery description of Pratchaya Phinthong’s 2013 art-work, ‘Broken Hill’, includes the body of a living Zambian man. ‘Plinth, perspex, replica skull, paper document, copper nails, postcard and a ...
Weekend Music Break 51 25 Aug 2013 | 04:42 am
It’s Afropunk Fest weekend in Brooklyn and a few of us at AIAC will be partaking in the madness. Resident DJ Chief Boima will be hosting the After Dark Africa Latina party tonight at Brooklyn Taphouse...
That TIME story that South Africa may outlaw spanking at home 23 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
On 30 July freelance reporter Melissa Locker reported for TIME Magazine that South Africa’s government, in cooperation with some notable children’s rights NGOs, is drafting a bill that would outlaw sp...
A fresh dose of the Chimurenga Chronic 23 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
For those of us seeking to get our fix of media with substance, it’s time once again to take a hit of the Chronic. Chimurenga, the recalcitrant pan-African multimedia institution based in Cape Town, h...
South African Low-Fi Freedom 22 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
South African video footage has been freed from the annals of the archives housing our past on VHS. A remix of South Africa’s past and present day is now available in a low-fi video clip collection fr...
Chief Boima Interviews … Kae Sun 22 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
In our current #hashtag fueled media landscape, it is fairly hard for an up-and-coming artist to emerge outside of predetermined genre, social, or sonic signifiers. However, as an artist develops, som...
Photographing the African Diaspora in New York City 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
In a world ever more saturated by images, understanding how to read pictures has never been more important. In a course this summer at the New School in the GPIA, students learned how to read images, ...
Tuesday morning quarterbacking* 20 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
The meaningless football tournaments of the summer–mostly to the benefit of sponsors–are thankfully now over. Club football calendars from around the world have been synched (mainly to please European...
Escaping categorization: a Q&A with Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
It’s hard to catch photographer Michael Tsegaye; photography jobs frequently take him to remote parts of Ethiopia, while his personal work graces urban art meccas like Paris, New York and Bamako. He’s...
Not quite spring, but not nothing 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Yesterday, Monday, August 19, 2013, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who was the first woman to serve as Deputy President of South Africa (2005-2009), took the oath of office as Executive Director of UN Women....
