Selly Rabi Kane / Fashion / Senegal

New York, by Louis Draper

Accepting submissions for Afrofuturist Unconference, 10th October 2015! Guest Speakers always welcome - we are particularly reaching out to black animators, filmmakers and hackers who are interested in screening their work and leading workshops at our event. Send all enquiries to afrofutures.uk@gmail.com

The Powers of Mourning

"I have tried to suggest that precarity is the condition against which several new social movements struggle. Such movements do not seek to overcome interdependency or even vulnerability as they struggle against precarity; rather, they seek to produce the conditions under which vulnerability and interdependency become liveable. This is a politics in which performative action takes bodily and plural form, drawing critical attention to the conditions of bodily survival, persistence and flourishing within the framework of radical democracy. If I am to lead a good life, it will be a life lived with others, a live that is no life without those others. I will not lose this I that I am; whoever I am will be transformed by my connections with others, since my dependency on another, and my dependability, are necessary in order to live and to live well. Our shared exposure to precarity is but one ground of our potential equality and our reciprocal obligations to produce together conditions of liveable life. In avowing the need we have for one another, we avow as well basic principles that inform the social, democratic conditions of what we might still call ‘the good life’. These are critical conditions of democratic life in the sense that they are part of an ongoing crisis, but also because they belong to a form of thinking and acting that responds to the urgencies of our time."

"Can one lead a good life in a bad life?" Judith Butler, Adorno Prize Lecture.

Stary Mwaba: Life on Mars

6–29 March 2015

Künstlerhaus Bethanien Kottbusser Strasse 10 10999 Berlin Germany www.bethanien.de

Barkley L. Hendricks, Lawdy Mama, 1969

FAK'UGESI DIGITAL AFRICA CONFERENCE

Will be held at the Wits School of Arts on the 4th, 5th and 6th of December 2014.

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

soulevements : octobre 2016, les étudiants sud-africains protestent pour la seconde année consécutive contre l'augmentation des frais de scolarité.

All photos by Ihsaan Haffejee

Space Age Buildings of Africa

Throughout the world, the 1950’s Space Age was known for its beautiful, bold architecture,full of swooshy curves and spaceship-shaped buildings. But some of the most vibrant and retro-futuristic buildings of the Space Age can be found in Africa. Here are the most amazing architectural achievements from Space-Age Africa. By Vince Miklos.

Mausoleum of Agostinho Neto, the first president of independent Angola in Luanda, Angola

Building in Warri, Nigeria

Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Memorial to the Martyrs in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso

Bujumbura International Airport, Bujumbura, Burundi

The CNPS building (The National Social Insurance Fund):

St. Paul’s Cathedral in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), designed by Aldo Spirito, consecrated in 1980

The National Assembly, the parliament of Cameroon

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