December 2011
4 posts
“We are greater than our despair.
The negative aspects of humanity
Are not the...”
– “Mental Fight” by Ben Okri, 1999
November 2011
12 posts
C Stunners: Unique sun glasses by Kenyan Artist...
37thstate:
Cyrus Kabiru was born and bred in Nairobi. He is a self taught artist. His studio is at the Kuona Trust in Nairobi. Cyrus is currently a painter as well as a sculptor. He works with recycled products, and his signature are the unique eye glasses that he makes with various waste materials.
“Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet
I’m off to join the Development...”
– The Development Set by Ross Coggins, 1976
September 2011
1 post
7 tags
July 2011
1 post
Famine and the media
I wrote this blog post for a school project and with all of the recent media attention to the drought in the Horn of Africa, wanted to re-post it here.
For more info on this topic, check out the entire blog. Or read the book Famine Crimes by Alex de Waal.
Few of us can deny that when we think of famine in Africa – we think of emaciated, helpless people (especially children with “starvation...
June 2011
1 post
“Poverty can produce a most deadly kind of violence. In this society violence...”
– Coretta Scott King
May 2011
10 posts
Watchnationalgeographicmagazine:
The First Grader: The Story
In a small, remote, mountaintop primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge (Oliver Litondo), an old Mau Mau veteran in his 80s, who is desperate to...
African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration →
quadrupleminority:
As Africans, we all have infinite potential. We stand for an African revolution which encompasses the demand for a re-imagination of our lives outside neo-colonial categories of identity and power. For centuries, we have faced control through structures, systems and individuals who disappear our existence as people with agency, courage, creativity, and economic and...
Dutch Tulip Farms
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/15/magazine/look-tulips.html?ref=magazine
Lamu
“For decades, we have held in contempt those who actively celebrate death. When we’ve seen video footage of foreigners cheering terrorist attacks against America, we have ignored their insistence that they are celebrating merely because we have occupied their nations and killed their people. Instead, we have been rightly disgusted — not only because they are lauding the death of our...
April 2011
21 posts
“When it shall be said in any country in the world, ‘My poor are happy; neither...”
– Thomas Paine
“Start copying [what] you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of [the] copy you...”
– Designer Yohji Yamamoto’s advice to young people (via austinkleon)
“I think of one of the best examples of this. We all remember the great president...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., 1957
African migrants abandon the American dream →
verbalresistance:
The American dream is not all it is cut out to be and some Africans are turning their backs on life in the US.
Sammy Maina says the ten years he spent in the US would have been more profitable at home in Africa.
Frustrated by tough economic times in the United States, Sammy Maina is packed, ready and waiting to return to Kenya.
“I’m fed up and finished with the US,”...
Watchlooveee this.
seawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
biancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
“The more there are suffering, then, the more natural their sufferings appear....”
– Bertolt Brecht
Some things just aren't fair
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cook/those-who-contribute-the-_b_835718.html
