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IFFR: Where is Africa Opening ...

Posted by matathia on Feb 2nd, 2010
I am doing this while standing in the Press Centre of the International Film Festival. So I will be quick, and vaguely coherent. Tonight the Where is Africa component of the festival opens. As Alice Smits and Lee Ellickson, writing on the IFFR website...

On Post-Fascism: How citizensh...

Posted by matathia on Feb 1st, 2010
G.M. Tamas photo: PEN American Center As I was ruminating on the social environment that both nurtures and allows for the ascendancy of the far right ideas of politicians such as Geert Wilders in today’s Europe and the place of the African immigrant-...

Wanuri Kahiu’s ‘Pu...

Posted by matathia on Feb 1st, 2010
Yes, Sundance is closing and yes, I missed yet another opportunity to comment on Wanuri Kahiu’s 2000 short, Pumzi. Pumzi opened last October at the Kenya International Film Festival. It was also screened at the Goethe Institute, Nairobi, where...

BRAND ANGELINA JOLIE SCORES AG...

Posted by blackcampaign on Jan 29th, 2010
In the star struck world that we live in, where everything- from baby powder to glossy magazines- gets through its Market-life on the life support system that is celebrity endorsement, it is no small wonder that some individuals have become brands...

The Hague: Vague Snapshots...

The Hague: Vague Snapshots
Posted by matathia on Jan 14th, 2010
If everyday conversations were tweets then ‘The Hague’ would be a perennially trending topic in the Kenyan twitosphere. It is almost impossible, these days, to go through urban Kenya without encountering the words, The Hague. It screams at...
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