Yala Kisukidi Et Souleymane Bachir Diagne / [decryptcult] # 6 / Février 2014 (par Decryptimages)

Isuama Ibo. Isu tribe. ‘Okorosie’ masquerade. Masks called ‘Nwanyioma’ and ‘Akatakpuru’ 1931 Vintage Nigerian photos

Gerald Machona: Vabvakure (People from Far Away) (Zimbabwe)

Artist Statement: “Central to this body of work is my use of various decommissioned currencies as an aesthetic  material,” explains Machona, “in an attempt to link historic and contemporary trends of African diasporic migration on the continent. Most recently, the migration of Zimbabwean nationals into neighbouring SADC countries and abroad, following the country’s political and economic collapse. While South Africa hosts the largest population of these Zimbabwean nationals living in the diaspora, in May of 2008 they were amongst the foreign nationals persecuted by the xenophobic attacks. It was reported that people were targeted through a process of profiling that assumed authentic South Africans are lighter in complexion or fluent in an indigenous language; this resulted in 21 of the 62 casualties being local citizens. Such beliefs have complicated who is considered an ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ in South African society. Pitting ‘native’ against ‘alien’ and perpetuating an exclusive sense of belonging that is reminiscent of apartheid doctrine. There is a growing need in the post-colony to deconstruct these notions of individual and collective identity, since ‘nations’, ‘nationalisms’ and ‘citizenry’ are no longer defined solely through indigeneity or autochthony.”

I Will by Kwesi Abbensetts

Kiluanji Kia Henda. Ngola Bar. 2006 Triptych on aluminium

‘There are two questions which are vital to the African context: the ability to write and know one’s own history, and the ability to plan one’s own future.’

Okmalumkoolkat - Holy Oxygen (Official Video)

If Not Now, When? Models for Resistance in SF

Both fantasy and SF present alternative visions of the world; but some of these visions are helpful, and others are not. Some are dystopian, some are utopian. Some are hierarchical, some are egalit…

“In science fiction novels and dramas, the evil or oppression to be resisted is often systemic, and identifiable as a human construct, the outcome of a complex web of causality…”

vernacular algorithms

Anni Albers, Study for Camino Real, 1967

Participer c'est prendre part, apporter une part et bénéficier, nous dit Joelle Zask dans Participer. C'est la philosophie de Dieuf Dieul - faire et prendre, en wolof- un des groupes qui a fait la musique sénégalaise des années 1970-1980. 

Currently at @cccadi “Mulheres de Axé: Celebration of the Sacred Power of Women of Spirit” event in #Harlem This is The goddess Iemanja. #brazil #spirituality #orixas #iemanja #candomble #africandiaspora #africanspirituality

Monday July 20th marks the 46th anniversary of the first moon walk. Meet the Apollo 11 astronauts: Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin; Command Module pilot Michael Collins; Mission Commander Neil Armstrong. (Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #NASA