& Her Flying Machines too
That African Girl asked me some questions for her ‘Behind the Words’ series in which she interviews a cross-section of African members of the blogosphere. I was so honoured (and humbled) by her choosing to interview me, Makafui had such kind words to say about me (n_n) Next up in the Behind the words series,…
A more specific title would be ‘Nollywood for Child Rights, Women’s Rights and Against Human Trafficking’. For those of you who don’t know, I currently work with a non-governmental organisation and part of my job entails attending all sorts of meetings. Last week, I attended press conference at ActionAid on their new project, in collaboration…
Hyenas (Hyènes) is a movie directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty, a.k.a "the most paradoxical filmmaker in the history of African cinema", "the African Dionysus," "the prince of Colobane." Hyenas is part of Mambéty’s trilogies about the ‘power of craziness’; [It] tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village…
In the year plus since I returned to Nigeria and promptly lost the ‘returnee’ label, the Asian presence in the home I share with my mother and cousins has become really obvious. I came back as one of the rare Nigerian fans of Korean pop and sageuk, it was very lonely. But as time passed,…
I’ve got a new guest blog over at Beyond Victoriana on African wax fabrics, specifically on their ‘untold’ history. “A picture of a pipe isn’t necessarily a pipe, an image of “African fabric” isn’t necessarily authentically [and wholly] African”. These above words are quoted by Yinka Shonibare, a Nigerian-British contemporary artist known for his amazing…
Just because, a slightly NSFW black and white image of a young woman from Djibouti. Notice that her hair is not in plaits, braids or twists and is free. I’m going to be putting up or linking to images like these just to show that in the past some African women left their hair free…
I wrote this post last year immediately after I finished reading the book. I sat on it because I wanted to reread the book. I’m halfway through reading New Dawn a second time and, yeah, my opinion is pretty much the same. While reading keep in mind that I enter sarcasm mode quite often in…
I watched this interesting movie last night using valuable sleeping hours. It happened by mistake, I was trying to show my mum this channel, Magic World Africa and it was just my luck that as I tuned in, the next scheduled movie was Almacita, Soul of Desolato. Magic World Africa is one of the many…
David Kato, a Ugandan LGBTIQ and human rights activist was brutally murdered in his home on the 26th of January 2011. The statement below was drafted by Sokari Ekine, of Black Looks, and Sean Jacobs, of Africa is a Country, with the aim of getting signatures from 100 African bloggers. I have signed this statement…
I spent the Christmas holidays in Ghana and wrote about it! Our next guided tour was to the Kakum National Park and Cape Coast which is home to several colonial castles. Once more we woke up really early in the morning and got into a bus with other Nigerians and off we went on our…