I love the Nairobi Gallery, one of Nairobi’s unknown treasures which, paradoxically, is adjacent to the city’s main artery, Uhuru Highway. Not only is it a quiet, still oasis sitting in the hustle and bustle of the Central Business District, it also usually has permanent exhibitions (1 year+), unlike most artistic spaces in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘photography’
9 March, 2009
Black British.Photography
I found Professor Paul Gilroy’s book to be a very informative, elegant and intriguing visual portrayal of the arrival of Empire Windrush, the mass immigration of Afro-Caribbeans in 1948 and the time that ensued for the newly Black British arrivals and their descendants. I found it surprising and disappointing, however, that Gilroy overlooked the subsequent [...]
2 March, 2009
Black British.Actors
I’ve been pondering exceptionally lately on what the label Black British means; the baggage it weighs on the shoulders of those who carry it, those who embrace it and those who reject it, the images and stereotypes it conjures in one’s mind, the connotations it evokes and the incessantly evolving characteristics that define Black British [...]
14 October, 2008
Africa + Funky Trendy Über Cool Popular Culture = Pop’Africana
I’m a bit late with this post, but there are so many wonderful on-goings in the Afroculture domain that I can barely keep up! And that’s a good thing.
, the Africana global book of style, is a bi-annual fashion.art.style magazine that recently had its online debut (hat tip Afripop!).
Pop’Africana is a collaborative effort which aims [...]
10 October, 2008
Our Stories As Told By Us
As we evolve and define, reassess, re-evaluate and re-define our identity as a nation, the thing called Kenya (46 years old this December and therefore relatively young), it is crucial that we grapple with our contradictions and influences, both ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ that may be internal and/or external both on a micro and macro level, [...]
29 September, 2008
AfriPhotography::The 2 Andrews
Esiebo
Dosunmu
I remember reading an article in the late 90’s that suggested there was a boom in the naming of baby boys Michael, as inspired by the legends Mr Jordan, Mr Jackson, Mr Johnson and Mr Tyson (in no particular order). I am tempted to suggest the same should be so for Andrew, although the [...]
2 September, 2008
Africans in France Sans Papiers
An interesting read in the Guardian today that gives a laudable account of Parisian photographer Fabien Breuvart, who in show of solidarity with hard working, tax-paying but non-social-benefits-claiming illegal African immigrants a.k.a sans papiers (without papers) has taken hundreds of photos (500+ and counting) of these workers alongside documented members of the public. The [...]
