A Re-working Of The Eponymous T.Rex Glam Rock Anthem Into An IsiXhosa Protest Song. The Track Was Rearranged

image

A re-working of the eponymous T.Rex glam rock anthem into an isiXhosa protest song. The track was rearranged in collaboration with composer and choir leader Bongani Magatyana, and is here presented in speaker cabinets visually quoting the Intonarumori noise-generating machines of the...

Tags

More Posts from Associationxamxam and Others

7 years ago
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Grandma Ruby’s African Statue Heads from The Project The Notion Of Family, 2007

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Grandma Ruby’s African Statue Heads from the project The Notion of Family, 2007

6 years ago

Leikeli47: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert


Tags
10 years ago

FAK'UGESI DIGITAL AFRICA CONFERENCE

image

Will be held at the Wits School of Arts on the 4th, 5th and 6th of December 2014.

Read More

10 years ago
 Photographer Cristina De Middel’s Intoxicating Blend Of Truth And Fiction
 Photographer Cristina De Middel’s Intoxicating Blend Of Truth And Fiction
 Photographer Cristina De Middel’s Intoxicating Blend Of Truth And Fiction
 Photographer Cristina De Middel’s Intoxicating Blend Of Truth And Fiction
 Photographer Cristina De Middel’s Intoxicating Blend Of Truth And Fiction
 Photographer Cristina De Middel’s Intoxicating Blend Of Truth And Fiction

 Photographer Cristina de Middel’s Intoxicating Blend of Truth and Fiction

10 years ago

Le Bronx été 1984, Dick Fontaine réalise un très beau documentaire pour la BBC sur la culture hip hop qui émerge aux marges de la cité.

10 years ago

Rama Thiaw documente les engagements d'une jeunesse sénégalaise entre musique et politique.

Réalisatrice et activiste, Rama Thiaw fait partie de la nouvelle génération de réalisateurs qui a choisi de bousculer les représentations médiatiques éculées sur l'Afrique. Son terrain de représentation c'est la ville branchée sur le monde, la musique et la politique et qui développe une culture urbaine faite de toutes les spécificités locales.

Nous avons rencontré Rama Thiaw à Dakar en décembre 2013. Au cours de cette première interview, elle évoque son itinéraire, des trottoirs de Pikine, dans la banlieue de Dakar, au choix du cinéma comme outil le plus adéquat pour lutter contre les stéréotypes. Son premier documentaire "Boul Fallé" sorti en 2009, revient sur les "nouvelles figures de la réussite" qui émergent au tournant des années 2000 alors que la jeunesse sénégalaise vit encore les effets de la dévaluation du franc CFA de 1994 et les programmes d'ajustements structurels imposés par le FMI. Le pouvoir contestataire du rap américain, le retour à la lutte sénégalaise jadis interdite par les colons, l'adoption d'une détermination plus individuelle à réussir vont être les symboles les plus médiatiques de cette jeunesse qui ne veut plus en référer qu'à elle même.

Son second documentaire "The Révolution won't be televised" devrait sortir cette année. Empruntant le pas au mouvement Y'EN A MARRE qui va aboutir au départ du Président Abdoulaye Wade en mai 2012, la réalisatrice dresse le portrait des deux protagonistes du groupe de rap Keur Gui2 Kaolack, Thiat et Kilifeu, initiateurs en 2011 du mouvement d'opposition au pouvoir le plus radical et le plus médiatisé de ces dernières années.

Dans ce second interview, Rama Thiaw fait le lien entre trois générations de jeunes qui ont à chaque fois affronté et déstabilisé le pouvoir en place : celle de mai 1968 avec la figure devenue mythique de Oumar Blondin Diop, celle des années blanches des années 1990 qui donnera ses lettres de noblesse au rap et enfin la génération Y EN A MARRE qui émerge dans la foulée des printemps arabes. Elle revient également sur la place de la musique qui n'est pas seulement un divertissement mais s'inscrit dans une tradition ancienne de lien entre les différentes composantes de la société sénégalaise.

Oulimata Gueye


Tags
11 years ago

New Kenyan Sci-Fi Series Imagines Immigration In Reverse, As Africa Becomes World’s Oasis

At a time when Africa receives 50,000 Greencard Lottery wins each year to migrate to the US alone, this new production series seeks to address ongoing immigration issues within the world. It is also expected to change the negative portrayal of Africa as a poverty stricken continent to that of an avenue for development, of which, would gradually discourage youth from seeking “greener pastures” abroad. As the brain child of Dr. Marc Rigaudis, directed by Cherie Lindiwe from USIU, the new plot revolves around a young couple embarking on a treacherous journey to reach mankind’s last cradle of hope, Africa. However, the couple must beat the impossible odds, experience great sacrifice yet keep their faith before their goal can be achieved.

H/T Shadow and Act


Tags
10 years ago

Space and Modernism in Ghanaian Architecture

Space and Modernism in Ghanaian Architecture

Commissioned work by South African freelance photographer Alexia Webster. This particular series is spellbounding in the way that it captures public spaces in Urban Africa.  The series provokes the viewer to reinterpret architectural structures and you feel as though you are caught in between the present, past and future where the objects in the photos appear to be both geometrically ordered and…

View On WordPress

10 years ago
West African Inventor Makes A $100 3D Printer From E-Waste
West African Inventor Makes A $100 3D Printer From E-Waste
West African Inventor Makes A $100 3D Printer From E-Waste

West African Inventor Makes a $100 3D Printer From E-Waste

Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printer which he constructed from parts he scrounged from broken scanners, computers, printers and other e-waste. The fully functional DIY printer cost a fraction of those currently on the market, and saves environmentally damaging waste from reaching landfill sites.

Discarded electronic equipment is one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of waste, as consumers frequently replace “old” models that become more obsolete each year. However instead of letting e-waste sit them on the scrap pile or head to the landfill, Kodjo Afate Gnikou decided to utilize spare parts in order to create a cheap, DIY 3D printer.

Gnikou is part of WoeLab, a hackerspace in the city of Lomé, and has big plans for his recycling project. According to his crowd funding page, he is working with FacLab-France in the WAFATE to Mars project, which aims to make machines from recycled e-waste to prepare for missions on Mars. Systems like the 3D printer could become a crucial part of missions on the Red Planet should they ever go ahead.

Gnikou’s 3D printer was mostly made from materials he obtained from a junk yard in Lomé, though he did have to buy a few parts. The entire system cost about $100 which is a bargain considering current models on the market can cost thousands of dollars.

According to his fundraising page, Gnikou aims that with his project, he will “put technology into needy hands and give Africa the opportunity to not only be a spectator but to play the first role in a more virtuous industrial revolution.”

Loading...
End of content
No more pages to load
  • legreffon
    legreffon reblogged this · 10 years ago
  • legreffon
    legreffon liked this · 10 years ago
  • associationxamxam
    associationxamxam reblogged this · 10 years ago
  • associationxamxam
    associationxamxam liked this · 10 years ago
  • lexiphile
    lexiphile reblogged this · 10 years ago
  • theotherjameswebb
    theotherjameswebb reblogged this · 12 years ago
associationxamxam - African digital perspectives
African digital perspectives

"Of whom and of what are we contemporaries? And, first and foremost, what does it mean to be contemporary?" Giorgio Agamben, Qu’est-ce que le contemporain?, Paris, Rivages, 2008. Photo: Icarus 13, Kiluanji Kia Henda

201 posts

Explore Tumblr Blog
Search Through Tumblr Tags