Posted: June 13th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: film, globalization, politics, poverty | Comments Off
Screen shot of trailer for the documentary “Good Fortune at the Transient Pictures website.
Good Fortune is a feature length documentary that explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. Through intimate portraits of two Kenyans battling to save their homes from large-scale development organizations, the film presents a unique perspective on the struggle to overcome world poverty.
There is a screening of Good Fortune on June 24th at Walter Reade Theater at The Film Society of Lincoln Center here in New York City as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Screening details here.
Posted: June 13th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: music | 2 Comments »
[UPDATE: Slush Puppy Kids comprises Big Space AND Spoek Mathambo.] It’s been pretty much Spoek Mathambo week, month, year here at casa forota, as the recently hitched South African DJ/singer/rapper/artist has thrown off mixtape after mixtape of tech-y South African house. This is how I am getting my fix of what someone in the twittersphere called “orgasmic” South African electronic music. In addition to showcasing some of his own work as in Slush Puppy Kids*, Playdoe, Sweat.X and Moleke Mbembe, he mixes in snippets of what is au courant in SA music. E.g. the H.I.V.I.P. Devil House Mafias 2 set below contains a good sampling from DJ Mujava’s latest album. Very cool.
You can download Spoek Mathambo: H.I.V.I.P. Devil House Mafias 2 here.
Track list from Mathambo’s highly informative and entertaining site, Throwing Shade.
SLUSH PUPPY KIDS – WE THE BEST
DJ MUJAVA – PHELINDABA
BANANA CLIPZ – PUSH AM (LEFT, RIGHT)
BAKSTINA – DASHBOARD LOVE
EASTWEST – PSCHADELIC DISCO
THE EXTRA T’S – FLASH BOOGIE
ACSLATER – HELLO (MOLEKE MBEMBE REMIX)
DJ SPYRO – SPYRO SPESH
DJ MURKZ – WWOW DUTTY
**MURKZ – PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MUSIC
T2 – HEARTBROKEN (NASTIBOI RMX)
MOLEKE MBEMBE – HESLOSTCONTROL
BUJO MUJO – ??
DJ MUJAVA – DIPALA TSATWANE
SPIKIRI THE KING DON FATHER- UNIQUE
CHIEF BOIMA – COUPE LIKE ME BABY
SHAKKA ROXX – SHATEH
SLUSH PUPPY KIDS – TOO HIGH
DJ MUJAVA – TSWARA TSWARA
DJ TAKALANI’S HOUSE MAGIC – DONOSA
SIBOT – CHISA
YUKSEK – EXTRABALL (MOLEKE MBEMBE REMIX)
SOLID GROOVE – THIS IS SICK
THUNDERHEIST – FREDDIE
PLAYDOE – ICE CREAM
Posted: June 7th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: globalization, photography | Comments Off
Screen shot of Yann Gross website
Kitintale Skates 2008. Swiss photographer Yann Gross’ portraits of skaters in Kampala who constructed “the first skate park in East Africa” inspired by MTV skateboarding images.
