Slow Skate, Francois Knoetze, Afrique Du Sud.

Afrique du Sud et science-fiction

Trois nouveaux ouvrages qui vont encore renforcer la position très spécifique de l'Afrique du Sud dans la production de science-fiction africaine. Merci à Lauren Beukes qui a travers son blog promeut cette création littéraire et nous permet ainsi d'y avoir accès.

"The space Race", Alex Latimer, Umuzi.

"Apocalypse Now Now", Charlie Human, Umuzi, 2013.

"The Three", Sarah Lotz, Hodder & Stoughton, et en français "Trois" aux Editions Fleuve Noir. A paraître en mai 2014.

"I don't write because I was segregated and humiliated and dispossessed. I write in spite of that." - Toni Morrison

First photo by an anonymous tokolos Second artwork and photo taken by Dreadr-MSE Graffiti Crew in Soweto

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

You deserve to take up space

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via manufactoriel)

Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people - Bobby Seale), 1969

soulevements #remember Marikana #south africa 2014

Lekker photos. The tokolos has been very busy in Jozi. #tokolosstencils

Fatoumata Diabaté: “Sutiki, la nuit est à nous”.

Started in Bamako, Mali, in 2004, Fatoumata Diabaté birthed this project out of an idea to capture how young African women express themselves through their choices of contemporary clothing. Diabaté aims to continue this project across several cities both in Africa and around the world.

Born in 1980 in Bamako, Mali, Fatoumata Diabaté received her initial experience at the Promo Femmes audio visual training centre before joining the Photography Training Centre (Centre de formation en photographie – CFP) in Bamako between 2002 and 2004. She continued her education with a one month internship at the vocational learning centre (Centre d enseignement professionnel) in Vevey, Switzerland and has participated in numerous workshops both in Mali and abroad.

She has participated in several group exhibitions (Bamako Encounters 2005, 2009 and 2011; Kornhaus Museum of Bern in Switzerland, etc.) and had several solo exhibitions (Festival of Visages francophones de Cahors, France; the Malians of Montreuil, outside the walls of the quai Branly museum, etc.)

She has reported for World Press Photo, Oxfam, Rolex. In December 2005, she received the Africa in creation prize of the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA) for her work entitled Tuareg, in gestures and movements. In 2011 she was awarded the Blachère Foundation prize for her work entitled The Animal in Man; the prize was an atelier in Arles and an exhibition at the Blachère Foundation. She is currently developing an art project about soutiki youth (The night is ours).

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The moon belongs to the people

Exposition du travail de l'artiste américain Glenn Ligon, Call and Response cet automne au Camden Arts Centre 10 October 2014 - 11 January 2015

Cristina De Middel photojournaliste de formation, a choisi il y a quelques années de quitter le domaine strictement journalistique pour raconter des histoires avec ses photos et s'applique à brouiller les pistes entre réel, fantastique et fantaisiste. En 2012, la série "Afronauts" —interprétation personnelle du projet du zambien Edward Festus Makuka Nkoloso d'envoyer une navette spatiale sur la lune avant les Américains et les Russes—, lui confère une rapide notoriété. En 2013, invitée par le Lagos Photo Festival, elle s'appuie sur le célèbre roman du Nigérian Amos Tutuola, "Ma vie dans la brousse des fantômes" pour réaliser une série de portraits des habitants de Makoko, un quartier pauvre à la périphérie de Lagos.

De passage à Paris, pour le salon Paris Photo, Cristina De Middel nous présente sa démarche dans laquelle science-fiction et Fantasy tentent de déplacer le champs des représentations de l'Afrique.

Voir les photos de "This is what hatred did" sur le site du Lagos Photo Festival

Oulimata Gueye