He decides to make series of portraits of black men, heroes, courageous soldiers, sometimes also influential women, who lived in a time or operated under circumstances in which their blackness had no negative connotation. Figures that are wrongly missing in the canon. Rob Perrée on the work of Kenneth Aidoo. Black is the color of my true loves hair, 2022 Kenneth Aidoo (1988, Dutch, Ghanaian parents) describes the Dutch cultural climate for black residents, especially black artists, with the term Black Renaissance, because he signals a growing interest in what they are doing presently as…
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Written by Lifetime Safaris Serengeti is the world’s most renowned sanctuary. The Wildebeest Migration is the natural wonders of the world that draw many travelers to Tanzania to visit the glorious Serengeti National Park. The second-largest land-based migration of mammals in the world is on the Serengeti Migration Tours. On the other hand, it is one of the seven natural wonders of Africa and one of the ten natural journeys. The most sought-after wildlife and nature lovers; the Great Serengeti Migration Safari has over one million different species traveling in circles through the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The Serengeti Wildebeest Migration is…
By working with the energy of this truth in her work rather than historical fact, Leigh reclaims the narrative and space independent from the timeline of colonialisation. In this way she achieves the eponymous state of “sovereignty”. Christabel Johanson on Simone Leigh American artist Simone Leigh is representing the United States at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. Her exhibition Sovereignty is commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Leigh has spent the last two decades creating…
With the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) set to begin in Egypt, global public health experts are focusing on the climate impacts to human health, especially on the African continent. Flooding in South Sudan, food insecurity across the Sahel, and spikes in Ebola and other disease outbreaks are linked to a changing climate, according to health officials speaking at the World Health Organization’s African Region (WHOAFRO) press briefing on climate-related health emergencies Thursday. “We have seen an increase in the number of Ebola outbreaks in our region,” said Dr. Patrick Otim of WHOAFRO. “Since year 2000, we have…
Former Jamaican international athlete Lacena Golding-Clarke, according to SportsNow, has said that Tobi Amusan’s incredible world record run at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA in July ‘was something that had been brewing for a while.’ Golding-Clarke, an Olympian and 2002 Commonwealth Games champion, is the coach of reigning World 100m hurdles champion, Amusan. READ MORE: Tobi Amusan smashes 100m hurdles world record at World Championships A former sprint hurdler herself who represented Jamaica at three Olympic Games and five World Championships says she knew the 25-year-old Nigerian would break the world record and actually expected her to be…
Something is moving in Malawi. In the very sense of the word. More than “something” is moving, to be exact. Over 200 elephants will find a brand new life for themselves in a new territory . It is happening in these days, in June 2022. By the 27th, in fact, 250 elephants will start to be moved from Liwonde National Park to Kasungu, and by the end of July they all shall have found a new place in the world. This is great news!About the elephants of KasunguKasungu National Park is the second largest park in Malawi. It is famous…
Retelling her experience of meeting a Nigerian man on a crowded street in Hong Kong, the persona in Sarah Lubala’s “I am never more black”, from her 37-strong debut poetry collection A History of Disappearance (2022), concludes that “we are everywhere at once” (p.49). While that statement may vouch for presence, being everywhere at once may also be a sign of displacement – the individual having no specific place with which to identify. Being everywhere may as well mean being nowhere, which is how one disappears. The trauma of displacement and its uncountable loss is at the crux of Lubala’s…
It is not news that liberal democracy, which evolved in various forms in Africa in the aftermath of the Cold War, stands troubled in many countries. How did we get here, and what can be done to invent a democratic culture and practice more suitable to Africa’s histories, its peoples’ aspirations, its many national peculiarities, and the cultural orientations and socializations of its peoples? Questions about the precarious state of liberal democracy in Africa invite a deep, critical philosophical reflection on democracy in both its generic and liberal Western iterations. We must proceed from a premise that discards the notion…
• Plateau United also on top, hit Al Akdar 4-1One of Nigeria’s representatives in this year’s CAF Confederation Cup competition, Rivers United, were in mercurial form, yesterday, when they thrashed visiting Al NASR 5-0 in the first leg of their group stage qualifying tie. The Rivers boys, who dropped down to the Confederation Cup from the more prestigious Champions League after losing 6-0 to Wydad Casablanca in the last qualifying round, were in no mood for another disappoint as they swooped on the visitors right from kick off. Starting by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) appointed 2.00 p.m., Rivers…
The official dates for the return of Heineken Lagos Fashion Week are October 26th–30th 2022This season, Lagos Fashion Week is renewing its focus with a sustained resolution to demonstrate dedication to funding, capacity building across retail and manufacturing, and navigating the circular economy and education.This season, Lagos Fashion Week is renewing its focus with a sustained resolution to demonstrate dedication to funding, capacity building across retail and manufacturing, and navigating the circular economy and education. Collaboration, co-creation, and community remain the driving force.The Lagos Fashion Week Swap Shop, Workshops for women-owned businesses with Sunlight Nigeria, FBS with Cross-Boundary, Runway shows…