Photos: Delphine Diallo, Http://delphinediallo.tumblr.com/

luvale dancer, makishi festival, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

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

Nina Simone - Stars (Montreux Festival 1976)

"I'm trying to tell my story ... we always have a story."

Ekombi dancers of Calabar. 1965 Vintage Nigeria

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

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In Conversation With Sound Artist Emeka Ogboh on Lagos, and Listening To The World In a Musical Way

A lot of people would consider Lagos’ soundscape as being very noisy, and they’d call it noise. But I stopped calling it noise since I started listening to it. — Emeka Ogboh

Ilpo Jauhiainen | But when you first started did you have any doubts? Did you always know sound was going to be one of your main media?

Emeka Ogboh | It’s an interesting question; I didn’t actually set out to be a sound artist. Lagos made me a sound artist. I didn’t always know that sound would be one of my main media of artistic expression. I thought I would be a brief affair, but I completely got sucked into it and I didn’t see that coming. Of course I had doubts when I started, I wasn’t so sure what I was doing or where I was going with it. It felt like I was groping around a dark room, searching for the light switch. But then, persistence paid off.

Read the full in-depth interview with Lagos-based sound artist Emeka Ogboh in conversation with Ilpo Jauhianen.

Source | anotherafrica.net

Images courtesy of Emeka Ogboh. All rights reserved.

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THE NEXT ECONOMY: International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam calls for projects from Africa

by Edgar Pieterse

“The mainstream hype around the strong GDP growth of many African countries over the past fifteen years belies the fact that very few decent jobs are being created and income inequality is alarming, and worsening. It is shortsighted and ignorant to think that the fortunes of the majority of urban Africans will be improved through “more of the same” models of economic growth. A paradigm shift is needed, and urgently.  As IABR–2016–The Next Economy’s Curator Statement suggests, such a new paradigm must serve the majority of people and nature in an integral way, which demands “an active re-imagining of the city, a redesign of its underlying logic, its system and the way it is arranged both spatially, organizationally and financially.” Thus, the IABR-2016-THE NEXT ECONOMY provides a fantastic opportunity for African urban designers, architects, landscape architects, academics, artists, planners, cities, universities, companies and social organizations, or coalitions thereof, to submit best practices, projects and plans that contribute towards or illuminate the dimensions of a new imagination for the African City  in response to the IABRs’ global call for projects.”

Read more at futurecapetown.com

‘our reality is illusion’, 2011