Notes on Corona | Stardust
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"I think my neighbors are dead. I peer into their windows but all I can see is darkness."
06/05/2020
Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in.
06/05/2020
When Tears Don’t Matter unfolds as I begin a journey of healing that would take me across ten thousand kilometres of sand and bushveld ...
06/05/2020
The documentary Stop Filming Us won the Dutch Movies Matter Award and received received favourable reviews [by the Dutch press]. Unbelievable, according to postcolonial media scholar Emiel Martens. ‘Postema throws the discussion about the Western view of Congo at least ten years back in time.’
04/05/2020
'The government must put itself into the shoes of its citizens and residents', say ex SA Revenue Service employees.
04/05/2020
In its 45 years as a sovereign state, Angola has gone from colonization to 32 years of civil war and the rise and fall of an oil-tied economy.
04/05/2020
Friday afternoons in Oran are usually for recreation for those who can afford it but since February 22, 2019, something was added to this routine.
01/05/2020
The government-run Giza Zoo in the heart of Egypt's chaotic, polluted capital survives and witnesses all the changes and tensions in the country since 2011.
30/04/2020
Yemeni-Bosnian artist Alia Ali explores cultures at geographic crossroads.
29/04/2020
In his Corona Diaries, Part 1, Ayo Adéné clears his heart.
22/04/2020
His name is Mohamed Yousif and he lives in Khartum, Sudan. Maral Noshad Sharifi traced the guy on the winning picture, made by Yasuyoshi Chiba, of this years World Press Photo Award.
22/04/2020
'As a matter of survival leaders can and should propose to their societies a new idea of Africa.'
21/04/2020
25 projects/photographers are nominated for this year's CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography.
21/04/2020
The Eyes of Melinda Gates
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It’s going to be terrible, she says. People will be dying in the streets. Have you seen the images from Ecuador? Piles of bodies. It will be like that in Africa.
14/04/2020
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14/04/2020
Notes on Corona in Africa 2
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From 'let's gather and pray' in Tanzania to 'compassionate leadership' in South Africa. A continent fighting a virus in a context of extreme poverty, food shortage and homelessness. But then: why are the figures still relatively low?
07/04/2020
It has been barely two weeks since the first case of coronavirus was detected in Kenya yet the ramifications of the pandemic are already being painfully felt within my community.
07/04/2020
In Nigeria, the situation has not scaled to the height of an epidemic. Is that why some argue that the governments campaign is simply a 'cope' and 'paste' of other countries?
07/04/2020
Lockdown meaningless in Dunoon informal settlements
07/04/2020
Meditating on human rights and the coronavirus in South Africa, Pumla Dineo Gqola posits that the landscape of freedom after apartheid has cemented an old regime of movement.
07/04/2020