In This Race, Crime & Citizenship Symposium About The Role Of Prisons In The Criminal “justice” System,

Ignorance is ignorance, no matter where you find it.

Samuel R. Delany, “The Story of Old Venn” (via wordswilling)

William Shakespeare,"La Nuit des rois".

You deserve to take up space

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via manufactoriel)

Zaire, by David Hammons

Photography Bruce Talamon

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

Afronauts

La réalisatrice ghanéenne Frances Bodomo, revient sur le pari fou d'Edward Nkoloso d'envoyer une jeune femme de 17 ans dans l'espace. Afronauts a été présenté en 2014 au Sundance Film Festival.

1962, sur fond de luttes pour l'Indépendance en Rhodésie du Nord, un homme, le professeur Edward Festus Makuka Nkoloso trouve un écho médiatique à son rêve fou de participer à la course à l'espace qui oppose les États-Unis à l'Union soviétique. Pour se faire il constitue une équipe qu'il entraine et c'est une jeune femme de 17 ans qui sera envoyée sur la lune. Le professeur n'obtiendra jamais les crédits demandés et la mission sera dissoute après que la je femme tombe enceinte. Entre utopie et dérision cette folle aventure dit surement quelques chose de l'histoire de l'Afrique qui entre, au tournant des années 1960, dans le tourbillon des Indépendances.

Et pour poursuivre ce reportage de la CCTV : http://english.cntv.cn/program/facesofafrica/20130909/100179.shtml

City in the Blue Daylight: @Nataal explores the 16th Dak’art Biennial for Contemporary African Art @biennalededakar

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Mbari is a visual art form practiced by the Igbo people in southeast Nigeria consisting of a sacred house constructed as apropitiatory rite.  Mbari houses of the Owerri-Igbo, which are large opened-sided square planned shelters contain many life-sized, painted figures (sculpted in mud to appease the Alusi (deity) and Ala, the earth goddess, with other deities of thunder and water).Other sculptures are of officials, craftsmen, foreigners (mainly Europeans), animals, legendary creatures and ancestors. Mbari houses take years to build and building them is regarded as sacred. A ceremony is performed within the structure for a gathering of town leaders. After the ritual is complete, going in or even looking at the Mbari house is considered taboo. The building was not maintained and decayed in the elements.

Chinua Achebe, renowned Nigerian novelist and literary theorist said, in his essay on Mbari, “Mbari was a celebration through art of the world and of life lived in it. It was performed by the community on command by its presiding deity, usually the Earth goddess, Ala, who combined two formidable roles in the Igbo pantheon as fountain of creativity in the world and custodian of the moral order in human society.

Afrakans consist integration with the spirit of the land and heavens. Symbolism and Spirituality in all aspects of life.- Khepri Neteru