http://www.forota.net/tz/ keeping track of african and africa-related media (film, photography, television, and print) from nyc. en-us 2006-08-13T10:17:21-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000403.html andrew dosunmu-directed video yousou n'dour "birima" [some shots in this video seem influenced by mark romanek's "got til it's gone" that itself was influenced by 60's/70's photography]. common "sixth sense" patrice "soulstorm" manic street preachers "let robeson sing"... music kamau 2006-08-13T10:17:21-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000399.html african mosaique: former ethiopian model anna getaneh's fashion line. dakova: nigerian fashion designer david kolawole vaughan wubet: handbags made using ethiopian woven fabrics and leather. mercato collection photographed by petra liebetanz [via the always excellent mimi magazine]... fashion kamau 2006-07-22T00:17:36-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000397.html of late i have been noticing a crop of african musicians who were born on the continent or have african parents but grew up in europe or the united states. most of them mine the neo-soul/classic r&b/jazzy funk vein, inspired... music kamau 2006-07-15T18:12:07-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000394.html "That is basically the next big challenge ... is making this interdependent world of ours on balance far more positive than negative ... and the extent to which we succeed in doing that will determine whether the 21st century... kamau 2006-07-04T00:39:52-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000386.html stumbled upon 2 unrelated (i think) doings about the children who commute into the streets of ugandan cities to sleep there overnight so that they do not get kidnapped and conscripted into the lord's resistance army to "fight" the horrendous... film kamau 2006-04-20T22:18:56-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000379.html open letter to president mwai kibaki on a recent assault on press independence in kenya. Dear President Kibaki: On March 2, 2006 government forces raided the headquarters and printing plant of the Standard Group. In addition to destroying equipment and... print kamau 2006-03-04T13:46:33-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000376.html chris seydou and the evolution of modern "african style". Annoyed by THE African style he had himself forged, he wanted his production to break free from generalised baroquism and interpret contemporary African society with its contradictions between narrow identity linked... fashion kamau 2006-02-25T09:47:20-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000371.html WGBW, the microwatt radio station of my alma mater UWGB played "black music" from 4 p.m. friday to late on saturday. it kicked off with pancho playing the "urban" sounds of his native nyc. philly expat "the fat cat"... music kamau 2006-02-03T19:05:28-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000369.html "It wasn't so much Iman's blackness that defied the fashion world of 1975; it was that she was African. She might as well have been from the moon. Not only did an African have no precedent in the business... print kamau 2006-01-28T12:16:33-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000368.html Stop Motion Studies - Series 13: montage of stop motion animations of people being photographed in the subways of tokyo, london, paris, new york and boston. (original animations for each of the cities were originally posted on the internets around... photography kamau 2006-01-14T23:59:21-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000366.html two stunning computer graphic-based short films filmed in jo'burg, south africa directed by neill bloomkamp (famous for the dancing-transformer-citreon commercial). tetra-vaal [click on the right of page for quicktime movie] mock commercial for robocop that can patrol the er, grittier... film kamau 2006-01-12T22:33:32-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000362.html powerful quote about the power of african music: One of the most important events of the twentieth century was the marriage of African and European musical languages. It wasn't just one marriage, but a series of marriages—in the American South,... music kamau 2006-01-06T20:31:36-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000361.html the "419 scam" from the nigerian point of view, ("we are motivated by poverty, our victims are greedy and/or stupid"). I Go Chop Your Dollar [quicktime movie]. I go chop your dollar I go take your money, disappear 419 is... multimedia kamau 2006-01-02T09:06:19-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000359.html moshood creations fort greene-based fashion designer, store. south african fashion week, 2005 fashion in motion, africa 2005, featuring: xuly bet (mali/paris), joel andrianmearisoa (madagascar/paris), hassan hajjaj (morocco/london).... photography kamau 2005-12-17T12:24:14-05:00 http://www.forota.net/tz/archives/000356.html the changing (i.e. more ethnic) face of corporate stock photography. "the visual monoculture of the 20th century is in the dustbin of history". so posits getty images.... kamau 2005-12-04T22:58:57-05:00