Collages By: Jamilla Okubo

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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Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. Marshals to attend the first grade, 1960

Paris, 18 octobre 2013, 13.00, les lycéens sont dans la rue pour protester contre la stratégie du gouvernement qui consiste à spectaculariser les reconduites à la frontière des immigrés continuant ainsi fragiliser les plus vulnérables.

Space and Modernism in Ghanaian Architecture

Space and Modernism in Ghanaian Architecture

Commissioned work by South African freelance photographer Alexia Webster. This particular series is spellbounding in the way that it captures public spaces in Urban Africa.  The series provokes the viewer to reinterpret architectural structures and you feel as though you are caught in between the present, past and future where the objects in the photos appear to be both geometrically ordered and…

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My interview just posted at The People Who Write.

photo credit Beowulf Sheehan

Khayelitsha, a human dumping ground of about 1 million people was built by the apartheid government and continues to be maintained by the current neoliberal ‘democratic’ regime. The townships are hell on earth. They are a space that dehumanises all those who live in it. by The Tokolos Stencil Collective

Fatoumata Diabaté: “Sutiki, la nuit est à nous”.

Started in Bamako, Mali, in 2004, Fatoumata Diabaté birthed this project out of an idea to capture how young African women express themselves through their choices of contemporary clothing. Diabaté aims to continue this project across several cities both in Africa and around the world.

Born in 1980 in Bamako, Mali, Fatoumata Diabaté received her initial experience at the Promo Femmes audio visual training centre before joining the Photography Training Centre (Centre de formation en photographie – CFP) in Bamako between 2002 and 2004. She continued her education with a one month internship at the vocational learning centre (Centre d enseignement professionnel) in Vevey, Switzerland and has participated in numerous workshops both in Mali and abroad.

She has participated in several group exhibitions (Bamako Encounters 2005, 2009 and 2011; Kornhaus Museum of Bern in Switzerland, etc.) and had several solo exhibitions (Festival of Visages francophones de Cahors, France; the Malians of Montreuil, outside the walls of the quai Branly museum, etc.)

She has reported for World Press Photo, Oxfam, Rolex. In December 2005, she received the Africa in creation prize of the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA) for her work entitled Tuareg, in gestures and movements. In 2011 she was awarded the Blachère Foundation prize for her work entitled The Animal in Man; the prize was an atelier in Arles and an exhibition at the Blachère Foundation. She is currently developing an art project about soutiki youth (The night is ours).

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Lorna Simpson: Ebony Collages

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Morocco’s ‘My name is not Negro’ campaign

According to an AlJazeera report Sub-Saharan Africans are most vulnerable to attacks in North African countries not just because of their skin colour but also because being black is associated with being undocumented and hence being a threat to people’s safety. In people’s minds, black skin equals undocumented. We see it with the case of Toussaint Mianzoukouta, a Congolese teacher who had his papers and was arrested by accident and then killed while being transported by the authorities. Activist Dhoruba Bin-Wahad had this to say about the current relationship between Sub-Saharan Africans and North African Arabs.

"Much of North Africa’s Arab population exhibit anti-Black and anti-Sub-Sahara African prejudice and behave in a condescending and arrogant fashion when dealing with Black Africans - even though many of them are of darker complexion than those they’re hating on! This is true in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, and especially true of the Wahabi Saudis. Which tell you that "skin" color is really not the basis for Arab ignorance but history and the geopolitics of conquests and empire. The attitudes exhibited by Arab Morrocans toward Black Africans is also alive and well right here in the US among the immigrant Muslim Arab population, who’s leaders, mostly from well off or educated backgrounds back in their country of origin, redly congregate in exclusive enclaves that wholly identify with the institutional racism of Law enforcement, and Businesses that exploit poor working class communities of color. Their contempt for Africans is thinly veiled but rears is ugly face whenever African-Americans challenge racism and the violence of the Police State, and often times their distain is barely detectable until there is a crisis that threatens their position in White supremacist America’s hierarchy of Racial worth, i.e., "Rag-heads" and "camel-jockeys" are barely a step up from "Niggers" and "Wetback" Mexicans. Nonetheless, in the US the economic, racial, and cultural division and class struggles that permeate the America’s Muslim population, (a minority of whom are actually of North African Arab origin) are papered over with an almost satis and subservient Islamic facade that does not engage America’s institutional racism - in fact encourage collaboration with and respect of "those in power over you". A principle that would have never served Africa’s enslaved in America well - but which suits institutional racism and the Rich"

A Moroccan campaign that denounces racism against black people has stirred significant controversy about the integration of migrants into the North African country.

Last month, the anti-racism collective, Papers for All launched a traditional- and social-media blitz, with photos, banners and T-shirts reading “Massmytich Azzi” (“My name is not Negro,” in Moroccan Arabic). The campaign came just a few months after the Moroccan government, which has been widely criticised over its treatment of sub-Saharan Africans, launched an initiative to document migrants.

Last year, a number of migrants died after being subjected to police brutality or racist acts, prompting human rights groups to intensify their efforts to force the government to act and sensitise Moroccans to the issue.

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