AFROPOLIS- City, Media, Art
Afropolis Poster
Afropolis Poster
Afropolis – City, Media, Art is an exhibition project, that will exhibit five big African cities (Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and Lagos). The exhibition will open at the end of October 2010 in Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne and should thereafter...
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WRITING MY GIKUYU NATION...
Posted by Potashius Nairobus on May 13th, 2010I was socialised Gikuyu.
Growing up in the Kiambu of the eighties, all I ever wanted to be was a blinged out Gikuyu.
I wanted the Datsun twero, the ‘Godfather’ hat, the cowboy boots.
And when I heard that there was a Gikuyu, with a big bar in...
POLITICAL WRITING IN MY KENYA...
Posted by blackcampaign on May 9th, 2010I do not write. I protest.
Today I learnt the true meaning of entitlement: Having blinds you to have-nots.
That’s why my Kenyan writer friends spend all their time:
a) Fighting white people who write what Kenyans ought to write.
“Wrong,” I...
CHIPS ISIYO FUNGA...
Posted by blackcampaign on May 5th, 2010
For Bruno Schultz my private Pole: a lesson in translation; anticipating progress in your work.
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Well it is bye to strangers who might come back our way as admirers in the made up ‘bravura’ of our revolution. Those are what ifs… The demons...
Writing My Kenyan Labour Day...
Posted by blackcampaign on Apr 30th, 2010[...]
[Labour] day, year in year out we came to listen to speeches in celebration of matunda ya uhuru/ fruits of our independence. Our ground forces marched past in a colourful show of might and our Air-force flew in formation saluting not just...
WRITING MY NAIROBI...
Posted by blackcampaign on Apr 27th, 2010I learnt to tell stories in a world where there was no theory. I knew no Feminism; I was just a boy telling the stories of the life and the living in the idiom of my world. I knew no historical materialism; class struggles, just that there were things...
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a) Fighting white people who write what Kenyans ought to write.
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AFROPOLIS- City, Media, Art
Afropolis Poster
Afropolis Poster
Afropolis – City, Media, Art is an exhibition project, that will exhibit five big African cities (Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and Lagos). The exhibition will open at the end of October 2010 in Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne and should thereafter...
