Arts & Books

At the screening of ‘Beauty Is…’ on 26 April at SOAS, University of London, someone asked whether there was a need for this film – perhaps even the debate. Responses by the audience and the panel were unanimous that such a film was very much needed.

PRESS RELEASE

21 March 2014

In the film Imagina na Copa (Imagine the Cup), South African storyteller Yazeed Kamaldien explores the voices for and against the tournament. Four screenings are planned for the film’s launch, starting at The Labia cinema on April 9.

In nations around the world, thousands of people will demonstrate in anger if the police do harm to a citizen. Not so in the United States. In this country a uniform provides a license to maim and to kill.

I admit fully that as soon as I heard about Peniel Joseph’s biography on the late Kwame Ture entitled ‘Stokely – A Life’ I was skeptical. I felt that way for a few reasons, none of them new, as it relates to scholarship on the life of Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael.

ADDUUNYADA NIN DHOOFIYO

ZANZIBAR TODAY

Zanzibar has too much history and much too little geography!

The book has two partitions. Part One sheds light on the sociolinguistic and linguistic structures of Camfranglais. In Part Two, the author provides readers with a lexical inventory of words and expressions that have come to be considered the functional vocabulary of Camfranglais speakers.

There are not enough books coming out of Swaziland to describe what is, after all, a unique culture and society that is, in its present absolute-monarchy-dictated form, in many ways brutally detrimental and stifling to its population.

More than in any other geographical location, culture has occupied a particularly privileged place in Africa. The reason for this has not only to do with the cultural diversity of the continent.