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The Frown’s Latest Video | The National
Introducing you to South African band The Frown, who guest appear on Spoek Mathambo’s latest project Nombolo One, which is how they came up on our music radar. Eve Rakow, the band’s lead…
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Motel 11 x Spoek Mathambo’s Nombolo One Project
Spoek Mathambo back at it again. As we wait for his upcoming release, Father Creeper on label sub-pop next Spring, he in the meantime unveils a new collaborative cover’s project, Nombolo One Project….
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Invenzioni e Capricci
Floral whimsy through the ages, from Italian renaissance painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo, to the photography of German-born Hans Silvester previously featured in the story Oh To Be So Adroit capturing the visual wonders and ornamentation…
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Food For Thought
Crises around the globe never ending and the need for reflection of our condition likewise to be constantly considered. Famine has once again struck in the Horn of East Africa, plaguing the nations…
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The Other Africa
A climate for changing perceptions, that is what Philippe Sibelly hopes to encourage through his project ‘The Other Africa.’ Sibelly is part of a rising group, both on and off the continent who…
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From North Africa to The Middle East
After scouring the online and offline print spheres, an introduction to our top picks for the discerning reader who wishes to get a pulse on ‘North’ Africa on topics ranging from the arts,…
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Eliza J., A Hummingbird in Tokyo
Clothes reflect the tastes, codes and values of a culture at a given moment; that Eliza J. was conceived by a mother of two, who lives in a metropolitan city, enjoys culture and…
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Figuratively Speaking
Cape Town-based Sobeit Studio, run by design duo Bartèl van Vuuren & Liezle Fourie (jewelry) introduce their Regency style inspired mirrors, ‘The Looking Glass‘ collection,
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Inspired | Cairo
Online magazine, Show Us Your Type curated by Neue combines two passions, typography and geography. Each issue features a new city where designers from around the globe contributing their visual ideations on…
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No Fear, The Rabble Writing On The Walls
When does writing on walls become less an act of defacing public property and more an act of activism, a release of the stifled and perhaps even repressed and unheard voices of the…
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Carl Kleiner on Ethiopia, A Beauty Awaiting Discovery
A, is for Addis Ababa. That was the inspiration and start of how Swedish photographer Carl Kleiner and his wife ended up visiting the East African horn nation of Ethiopia during the summer…
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Featured | Nicène Kossentini
Boujmal In the series Boujmal, Nicène Kossentini draws on her history, memory and Tunisian roots. The images, prints composited on a backdrop of lake Boujmal a dried up salt lake and landmark in…
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Another Africa On The Stage
Canadian Stage recently wrapped Another Africa, a Volcano Theatre production that explores Africa’s complex relationship with the West through two very different plays, Binyavanga Wainaina’s Shine Your Eye and Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Peggy Pickit Sees…
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Paris Photo Celebrates African Photography
The annual international photography fair Paris Photo, per its tradition to feature photography from a specific locale, focuses this year on Africa this its 15th anniversary. Celebrating Sub-Sahara, African photography from Bamako to…
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The Young & Restless
Some of the most significant aspects of the Arab Spring have been the methods that dominated the uprising.
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Featured | Mounir Fatmi
The Lost Springs ‘The Lost Springs’, a minimal and poetic installation consisting of the twenty-two flags of the nations belonging to the League of Arab States resting at half-mast.
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R.I.P. or Rest In Pop
Celebrating life in death, the fantasy coffins of the Ga tribe in coastal southern Ghana appear like an Andy Warholesque remix of mass market brands repackaged as pop art.
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Zenga Zenga
Out of all the new media phenomena the Internet has birthed in these past 15 years, what is deemed worthy to become a Youtube “smash hit” must be the most unpredictable.
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Unknown Union | Embracing Possibilities
What wine, so intoxicating as possibility. Perhaps it is a bit unusual to start a story about a fashion retailer by referencing a Danish philosopher, but as we interviewed one of the masterminds…
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Inspired | Masks
Graphical wonders. Inspired contemporary illustrations by British illustrator and graphic designer, Ben Newman that draw on ceremonial masks from around the globe, including the Congo.
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Oh To Be So Adroit
“Body painting, as practiced here in East Africa, the cradle of humanity, seems to me to represent a way of life that dates from prehistory and once enabled humankind to overcome the…
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In Case of Loss
The civil war in Libya aside from bringing hopes for a brighter future for many a Libyan brought with it the displacement of droves of migratory workers.
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Power In Numbers
A Guest Contribution by | Michael Thorsby Few could have anticipated that the suicide of Tunisian vegetable vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, aged a scant 26 years old, would precipitate the largest uprising and independence…
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In Focus | Michael Thorsby |PMKFA
Art director and occasional writer, Michael Thorsby| PMKFA joins us here at Another Africa for our next IN FOCUS series presenting his reflections on the topic of the young and the restless
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Reviewing The Bayimba Photography Workshop
It has been over a month since I taught the Bayimba photography workshop in Katanga, a local slum neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. Aside from successfully completing the workshop despite power outages and the…
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For a Past, Present Future Perfect | The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
If given the opportunity, can people write their own history?
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Unchain Our Hearts
Set us free just as long as we can hang onto one of these chain knit scarves, the perfect accessory for the fast approaching winter looming in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Featured | Dominique Sarah Benton
The work of South African illustrator and artist Dominique Sarah Benton appears disarmingly cute yet also portrays a rather twisted and intriguing world of strange figures and cartoon-like characters.
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tube-tape | another africa session no1
Feeling a little nostalgic throw-back to the old cassette player, we wanted to share our lo-fi meets hi-fi way to hear youtube tracks.
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Featured | Hélène Amouzou
Autoportraits Photos taken in the attic of the artist’s residence, the subject matter – herself, the images somehow haunting with her apparition-like silhouette placing her between absence and presence.
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It’s All About The Tingatinga
We have fallen head over heels for Tingatinga, a contemporary genre of painting from Tanzania. Though it is not always about the dots, when they are we can only say…. Yayoi Kusama eat…
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A Tale of Two Cities, Kyabahinga & Kreileroord
Though this is not always the case nor always their intended purpose, photographs can sometimes help us to better understand our world. Continuing our ongoing dialogue this month of August 2011 with Dutch…
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Sootcookie, Ceramics With a Twist
There is something charming, minimal yet cheeky about the ceramic creations of South African label, Sootcookie. Familiar but with a twist on the play to juxtapose materiality with function.
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Featured | Graeme Williams
Objects of Reminiscence “I think I started taking these photographs as a way of coming to terms with the harsh realisation that much of Africa’s natural beauty has been eliminated as the need…
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The Shaded Spectacle
The imaginary evolution of the spectacle, from beaded head-dresses, finely woven metal fringed visors to venetian blind and shutter shade sunglasses.
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Bayimba Photography Workshop No. 2
INTRODUCTION The Start. The most appealing thing about teaching is that it makes me think about the basics of photography.
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The Art of Storytelling | Andrea Stultiens
From Uganda, this month we join Dutch artist and photographer, Andrea Stultiens. Her work probes the question – How can we tell meaningful stories that are relevant to different audiences for different reasons?
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In Focus | Andrea Stultiens
From Kenya, the first location for our ‘In Focus‘ series, we move forward to another East Africa nation Uganda. There we will join Dutch artist/photographer and teacher, Andrea Stultiens.
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In Search of Another Africa: A Photographic Essay
Some months back, we asked French artist and photographer Florent Meng, if he would join us in a photographic conversation. A visual essay of sorts, about contemporary photography through the view finder of…
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Nov 03, 2011No Fear, The Rabble Writing On The Walls
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Oct 27, 2011
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Oct 07, 2011
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Nov 30, 2011The Other Africa
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Oct 23, 2011
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Sep 30, 2011
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Oct 30, 2011Featured | Nicène Kossentini
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Sep 15, 2011
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Aug 28, 2011
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Oct 04, 2011Oh To Be So Adroit
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Aug 09, 2011
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Jun 30, 2011
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Mar 04, 2011
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Oct 12, 2010
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The Young & Restless
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Zenga Zenga
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Power In Numbers
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In Focus | Michael Thorsby |PMKFA
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Reviewing The Bayimba Photography Workshop
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For a Past, Present Future Perfect | The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
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In Control
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A Tale of Two Cities, Kyabahinga & Kreileroord
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The Photographic Selection Process
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Mu Katanga
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A Photographer in Uganda
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Bayimba Photography Workshop No. 2
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The Art of Storytelling | Andrea Stultiens
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In Focus | Andrea Stultiens
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Africa Remixed | Two Artists Speak
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Sociological Lunches by Megumi Matsubara
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Sociological Lunch by MM: Day 5, James
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STRA | Stories For One Another
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Sociological Lunch by MM: Day 4, Jimmy
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A Day in Nairobi | Extended Version
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Sociological Lunch by MM: Day 3, Rakhee
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Sociological Lunch by MM: Day 2, Peterson
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Sociological Lunch by MM: Day 1, Thom
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A Day in Nairobi
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In Focus: Nairobi Through An Artist’s Eye
Eliza J., A Hummingbird in Tokyo
Clothes reflect the tastes, codes and values of a culture at a given moment; that Eliza J. was conceived by a mother of two, who lives in a metropolitan city, enjoys culture and…
The Frown’s Latest Video | The National
Introducing you to South African band The Frown, who guest appear on Spoek Mathambo’s latest project Nombolo One, which is how they came up on our music radar. Eve Rakow, the band’s lead…
R.I.P. or Rest In Pop
Celebrating life in death, the fantasy coffins of the Ga tribe in coastal southern Ghana appear like an Andy Warholesque remix of mass market brands repackaged as pop art.
STRA | Stories For One Another
INTRODUCTION ‘Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus,’ said artist Sol LeWitt in the late 1960s. LeWitt sought to dematerialize art by…
Music Moves the Soul
Photographer Simon Weller and author of South African Township Barbershops & Salons, recently put us onto Kanaga System Krush (K.S.K); an independent fair-trade ethos record label also based out of Nevada City, California. …
Riders on the Storm
Which riders you may ask are on the storm, the street riders found in Accra, Ghana we say. Introducing you to the Bikelordz through a guerrilla-style documentary shot and directed by New York-based…
Give it Up to Stocktown X South Africa: They in the Hizouse
Gotta give a big shout out and props to Another Africa friends, Sweden-based crew, Stocktown. If you are interested in street culture from around the globe, Stocktown is definitely a good place to…
Travelling Beyond Borders
Regardless of the amount of words, concepts and ideas required to describe a work of art, it either speaks to you, moves you or not. The work of Nigerian born, American raised artist…
I Am From Lagos Town
I am from Lagos town. Visas, Passports We don’t need them anyway. We are from Lagos town.
Mr. International, I don’t need a visa to go to other countries. The world is my town.
