Last week, I finished reading Adichie’s Americannah and promptly threw it across the room. The book infuriated me. It wasn’t because it was yet another book with Adichie’s predictable pace and prose. The book infuriated me because I saw in each…
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Africa’s tallest apartment building was built for luxury but filled with garbage | The Verge
November 4, 2013 Art & EntertainmentThe Verge covers Philip Bloom’s short film on Johannesburg’s most iconic residential tower. Johannesburg’s Ponte Tower was built in 1975 as a monument to luxury. The enclosed space at the center of the cylindrical apartment block was to…
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was a man of inherited wealth, artistic vision, controversial political views, and a well-curled mustache. His “Futurist Manifesto” is an outlandish and entertaining document that would be difficult to parody. via Remembering Futurism…
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Casting Call for African version of ‘Sex and the City’
August 13, 2011 Art & Entertainment Diaspora at workWe got this notice for an exciting new web series that will be shot on the East Coast and in Ghana. If you have acting chops or think you fit the roles, then download the PDF…
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For our fellow Diasporans in the UK, you might be interested in checking this out. We got word that FELA! is coming to Sadler’s Wells for a few weeks (July 20 – Aug 28 to be…
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A week ago, team PD had the pleasure of being invited to attend a rare US performance by one of our favorite Ugandan musicians, Maurice Kirya. It was an intimate performance in Denton, TX, home of…
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Amanda Mutamba Muhunde’s spoken word to Africa’s rape victims stirs, shocks
April 19, 2010 Art & EntertainmentThis past weekend, we attended Maurice Kirya’s performance in Denton, TX. Among the opening acts was a poetic by the name of Amanda Mutamba Muhunde. Her first poem, which was dedicated to raising awareness to the…
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Art Beat: Fred Mutebi to participate in WorldFest 2008
October 24, 2008 Art & Entertainment Diaspora at work UgandaAs you might know, PD loves us some Fred Mutebi, Uganda’s print-maker extraordinaire. Fred’s camp just sent us a press release to let us know that Fred and the Let Art Talk crew will participate in…
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