January 2011
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"This is the first day of the Egyptian... →
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“God when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human...”
– from The Joys of Motherhood [1979], by Buchi Emecheta
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“We’re all taught to be incredibly self-protective and incredibly defensive and...”
– Heather Havrilesky on Disaster Preparedness
(via theparisreview)
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David Goldblatt: Returns & Elisions
David Greenblatt | ‘Saturday Morning at the Hypermarket: Miss Lovely Legs Competition’ | 1979/80
“I stood before the photographs, and found myself weeping. I couldn’t tell you why, or for what loss. All I can say is that it was the first moment in which, after over a decade of leaving my own childhood home in Zambia – with only the understanding that it was a location...
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“the cure for boredom is curiosity. there is no cure for curiosity.”
– - Dorothy Parker. yes, ma’am.
(via ahnka)
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"Aid is not just about reducing poverty, it's a... →
IRIN report on South Africa’s imminent launch of its own aid agency
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'Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination... →
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed.
- The Guardian
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WatchPanel Discussion: Zina Saro-Wiwa, Awam Ampka, Mahen Bonnetti and Claudia Cairlman, 2010
Topics include: a Nigerian film aesthetic; a wider black African aesthetic; Nollywood and the aesthetics of African cinema; the future of African cinema
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