For those who know me, I am passionate about African culture and arts.
One of the most talented ladies I have met in the last two years is Jepchumba, a Kenyan digital artist living in Chicago, Illinois.
Her site African Digital Art highlights a lot of the most innovative and cutting edge artistry coming out of the [...]
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Afrosphere | African Digital Art
Posted in Afro Stuff, Creative Stuff on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Stuff | What’s Your Name Again?
Posted in Afro Stuff, Opinion on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is going to be a very short post but it has been something that has intrigued me for some time. It’s simply this. Why is it that when there are two black males in a room most of the non black people in the room have a problem distinguishing us?
This last week I spent [...]
Africa | Is Aid Dead or in Need of Recusitation?
Posted in Afro Stuff on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been interesting to see the debate on Aid to Africa rear it’s head again in both mainstream and social media. Following a speech by Dambisa Moyo (pictured) at the Hay Festival in London earlier this year it has once again sparked varying opinions (some very strong) on this.
The TED Global Africa 2007 conference [...]
African American Identity
Posted in Afro Stuff, Opinion on April 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wish this was available here in the UK. Great show
AfroSphere – 05.09.08
Posted in Afro Stuff on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some news and views from around the world.
Africa
After some funding and damn hard work by Eric and his team the Ushahidi website relaunches and is looking rather fantastic.
Afrigator the largest African blog aggregator has has a majority stake acquired by MIH Print (a subsidiary of Nasper). There is no understating how huge this is.
Americas
Bar [...]
The Apprentice Africa
Posted in Afro Stuff, tagged Biodun Shobanji, Reality TV, The Apprentice, The Apprentice Africa on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A number of weeks back I came across an article about The Apprentice, the show created by producer Mark Burnett, being formatted and shown across the whole continent of Africa. A co-production of The Executive Group (TEG) and Storm Vision Ltd and sponsored by the Nigerian Bank PhB.
The Apprentice Africa gathered 18 contestants from [...]
Africa | Ory Okolloh – The Making of African Activist
Posted in Afro Stuff, tagged kenya, Ory Okolloh, TED Africa, ushahidi on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I met Ory at TED Africa and was truly inspired by her story on a one to one basis. She is a blogger, a co-founder of Ushahidi and a Harvard trained lawyer. Check out her speech here at TED.
Unfortunately most of the slides you see her laughing at seemed to have [...]
Patrick Awuah | Leadership through Education
Posted in Afro Stuff, tagged Ashesi University, Leadership, Liberal Arts, TED, TED Africa on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Patrick spoke at the TED Africa conference in 2007 about his vision on critical thinking and liberal arts. He is part of a generation of young Africans who after being blessed with education at home or abroad are looking to change the political landscape of the continent through clear thinking and [...]
AfroPop | Emmanuel Jal
Posted in Afro Stuff, Opinion on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the recent 90th birthday party for Nelson Mandela’s there was a performance by rising Sudanese hiphop artist and writer Emmanuel Jal. In fact to many Emmanuel is no new kid on the block but an artist who has been developing his craft since 2005.
Emmanuel was born in Sudan. At a very young age [...]
Africa|Alltop
Posted in Afro Stuff on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Going through my RSS feeds today I noticed that AllTop had added Africa to its latest list of top links. Alltop is a site (definition for the non technical crowd) that aggregates or should I say brings together a number of the top blogs on a certain topic from around the web.
It made for quite [...]
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