#everyday africa

[thrdnarrative]

Flying kites in Kabale, Uganda by Adam Cohn

#Kabale #Uganda #Africa #everyday Africa

[irungu]

Master weavers. Kitui County, Kenya. Africa. 

#everyday africa #africa #African photographers #okayafrica #for africans

[lemisil]

#baby's on fire #die antwoord #yolandi visser #ninja #watkin tudor jones #smoke weed everyday #weed #gun #south africa #gifs #musicvideoedit #music #music video gifs #music video

[eucanthos]

Jojo Gronostay   (GHAN-DE, 1987)

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Brutalism, 2023

The Brutalist aesthetic has played a major role in the construction of the national identity of many West African countries.

Found in one of the largest second-hand clothes collection sites in the world, these heels reminded Gronostay of the Brutalist buildings in Africa as a means to question the economic, political, colonial and cultural exchanges between the African continent and the Western world.

He has created the platform DWMC (Dead White Man Cloths), which allows him to intervene in these exchange cycles between the two continents.

Artist presented as part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP). With the support of the Gœthe-Institut

https://www.festival-circulations.com/artiste/gronostay-jojo-2/

#Jojo Gronostay #recycle #hi heels #Architecture #Everyday #found objects #Africa #sculpture #modernism #typology

[iconsumeheadcanons]

why is it everytime grian posts a video i start scolding him. he cant hear me. i see his little minecraft face on a picture title and i just start shaking my head and clicking my tongue. i have full intent to watch the episode w joy, but as soon as i see him im like, "oh god, what is he doing now. gonna give him his red card for this behavior, but i REFUSE to run detention this time." he is a married man who i do not know. but he is in so much trouble i swear to bdubs (god)

#hermitcraft #pesky bird #i love myschevious people so much. he swindles millions of strangers everyday by playing videogames. why has no one told the authories #boop.txt #still not over sos Africa stream where ren asked him what kind of boardgamea he plays and grian says with ease #'burrito burrito. you have to throw it at each other. i also have a collection of nerf guns that i love to play with' #and i think tango was like 'and...who plays that with you?' 'my wife :D' and impluse was like 'does she also have one or...' #and i don't think grian acknowledged that question sldmfmdndndn #why does this guy like to play board games that i just throwing things at ppl. even irl knowledge about him makes me sigh #im constantly withholding desserts from him in my mind. hes too troublesome to get gigacorp pumpkin pies after a dinner of suet.

[azania-south-africa]

I think we are sometimes searching for beauty in landscapes and skylines we often miss the beauty of daily living, and our communities.

#durban #berea #photos #southafrica #slow living #life #beauty #community #africa #azania #everyday

[afrofunk]

Dr. Footswitch - Everyday Has Got A New Dream (1975) [FLAC]

- Contact me for digital exchange!

#Dr. Footswitch - Everyday Has Got A New Dream (1975) #Rare Afro Exchange Funk Disco Reggae Boogie Highlife Music West Africa South Africa Nigeria Ghana Ivory Coast Togo Benin Cameroon Antilles

[viagginterstellari]

Washing dishes - a village, Rio Cacheu, 2020

#picoftheday #travel #guinea bissau #africa #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #street photography #little girl #washing dishes #everyday life

[keeksorkiork]

Song of the day: If I ever saw heaven by Roan Ash ✨️

This is a little GEM from home! If you like country music or a little folkish this is definitely up your ally!! It's a love song with the most beautiful writing and it makes you want to find this kind of love! ✨️

Give him a listen-you won't regret it!! (Would make a good first dance song at a wedding)

#roanash #music video #new music #everyday life #favorite songs #song of the day #south africa

[kimludcom]

#lifestyle #food #foods #foodie #restaurant #sa #rsa #za #mzansi #in style #leisure #people #everyday #life #Southern Africa #South Africa #Instagram

[weirdgoogleearth]

Google Maps Sea View

Google Maps doesn’t miss a corner of the world! Even in the far-off islands in Mozambique, life is captured Name: Google Maps Sea View Lat, Long: -18.5596673,43.8969987 Location: Mozambique Channel, East Africa

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#Africa #Everyday Life #Nature #Ocean

[thrdnarrative]

Two women on a stroll together in Atar, Mauritania by Gerardo Amechazurra

#Atar #Mauritania #Africa #documentary photography #everyday Africa #Gerardo Amechazurra

[irungu]

WHEN I CAME TO EARTH, 23. 

2023 collection by Kepha Maina.  📸 @irungu_ Production and styling- Bryan Emry @missadhar  @nyakuar_john_

#kepha maina #made in kenya #african fashion #african design #african designer #fashion editorial #neoafrican #african contemporary art #african art #high fashion #afro futurism #futuristic #futuristic fashion #conceptual fashion #avant garde #avant garde fashion #African Photography #for africans #everyday africa #african modernism #melanin #black women #black skin

[c-40]

A-T-2 229 King Sunny Adé and His African Beats - Ja Funmi (Waka Version)

Brilliant dub version of Ja Funmi from the Juju Music album, King Sunny Adé's first release on a major label and his first to be released outside of Africa. King Sunny Adé was brought to the attention of Island Records by Robert Palmer and he was soon being billed as "the African Bob Marley." The 12" version of Ja Funmi also features a remix by Paul "Groucho" Smykle

#1982 #king sunny ade #jùjú #african pop #dub #africa #nigeria #everyday #80s music #record collector

[thethief1996]

For the past 100 days, Israel has been waging a genocide campaign in Gaza without any sort of reprieve from western countries. Palestinians are suffering from a human-made famine, surpassing the scale and speed of any other famine enforced in the past 75 years. Healthcare professionals are being cornered into Rafah by constant airstrikes, sniper attacks and bombardments at hospitals, forced to leave patients and medical supplies behind. Unmaned quadcopters opened fire on the maternity and ICU unities of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital and killed 8 civilians. Yesterday, the hospital ran out of fuel and the babies in incubators might die anytime soon. Only 127 aid trucks are being allowed into Gaza of the 500 allowed before the war, under "normal" blockade conditions. The distribution of food and water is made basically impossible by the destruction of communications and the looming threat of executions against people gathered to receive it. Just today snipers killed 3 people in line to receive food in Gaza City and Israel officials have the gall to say the problem is that humanitarian organizations, whose volunteers are being executed at unprecedent rates, aren't putting in enough effort. The IDF drops leaflets telling desperate refugees to flee and then station tanks on the roads or bombs the safe zones.

Ever since I read South Africa's submission to the ICJ I can't stop thinking about how they label it as the demication of Gaza and its people. On every sphere of the government, there are statements calling for the anihilation of the people of Gaza (pages 59 to 67). The Prime Minister has directly adressed the army telling them to wipe off the amalekites (page 60), and South Africa showed tiktoks of the soldiers repeating his speech word for word before committing massacres. And yet they have the gall to come to the world and say they haven't targeted hospitals, they haven't withheld aid and that the statements are "random assertions." To prove that Netanyahu isn't a blood thirsty pig, they pasted a statement he made ONE DAY before the hearing started, which is frankly ridiculous we're supposed to believe isn't a PR stunt (page 34).

No western outlet streamed the highest stake court hearing in the 21st century, but you can rest assured they streamed Israel's pathetic defense. And Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, countries which have in no way reckoned with their own genocidal pasts, have come forward in defense of Israel like they have any moral high ground to patronize the world about genocide.

Take action, for their sake. Motaz has said "Don't call yourself a free person if you can't make changes. If you can't stop a genocide that is still ongoing". We need to fight in any way we can to stop their massacre.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.

Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.

You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:

Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, McDonalds, Disney and Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate.

Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.

Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.

Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.

Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.

Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!

FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Feel free to add more.

#free palestine #save gaza #gaza under attack

[txttletale]

niceys positive anon!! i don't agree with you on everything but you are so clearly like well read and well rounded that you've helped me think through a lot of my own inconsistencies and hypocrises in my own political and social thought, even if i do have slightly different conclusions at times then u (mainly because i believe there's more of a place for idealism and 'mind politics' than u do). anyway this is a preamble to ask if you have recommended reading in the past and if not if you had any recommended reading? there's some obvious like Read Marx but beyond that im always a little lost wading through theory and given you seem well read and i always admire your takes, i wondered about your recs

it's been a while since i've done a big reading list post so--bearing in mind that my specific areas of 'expertise' (i say that in huge quotation marks obvsies i'm just a girlblogger) are imperialism and media studies, here are some books and essays/pamphlets i recommend. the bolded ones are ones that i consider foundational to my politics

BASICS OF MARXISM

friedrich engels, principles of commmunism

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian & scientific

karl marx, the german ideology

karl marx, wage labour & capital

mao zedong, on contradiction

nikolai bukharin, anarchy and scientific communism

rosa luxemburg, reform or revolution?

v.i lenin, left-wing communism: an infantile disorder

v.i. lenin, the state & revolution

v.i. lenin, what is to be done?

IMPERIALISM

aijaz ahmed, iraq, afghanistan, and the imperialism of our time

albert memmi, the colonizer and the colonized

che guevara, on socialism and internationalism (ed. aijaz ahmad)

eduardo galeano, the open veins of latin america

edward said, orientalism

fernando cardoso, dependency and development in latin america

frantz fanon, black skin, white masks

frantz fanon, the wretched of the earth

greg grandin, empire's workshop

kwame nkrumah, neocolonialism, the last stage of imperialism

michael parenti, against empire

naomi klein, the shock doctrine

ruy mauro marini, the dialectics of dependency

v.i. lenin, imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

vincent bevins, the jakarta method

walter rodney, how europe underdeveloped africa

william blum, killing hope

zak cope, divided world divided class

zak cope, the wealth of (some) nations

MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

antonio gramsci, the prison notebooks

ed. mick gidley, representing others: white views of indigenous peoples

ed. stuart hall, representation: cultural representations and signifying pratices

gilles deleuze & felix guattari, capitalism & schizophrenia

jacques derrida, margins of philosophy

jacques derrida, speech and phenomena

michael parenti, inventing reality

michel foucault, disicipline and punish

michel foucault, the archeology of knowledge

natasha schull, addiction by design

nick snricek, platform capitalism

noam chomsky and edward herman, manufacturing consent

regis tove stella, imagining the other

richard sennett and jonathan cobb, the hidden injuries of class

safiya umoja noble, algoriths of oppression

stuart hall, cultural studies 1983: a theoretical history

theodor adorno and max horkheimer, the culture industry

walter benjamin, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

OTHER

angela davis, women, race, and class

anna louise strong, cash and violence in laos and vietnam

anna louise strong, the soviets expected it

anna louise strong, when serfs stood up in tibet

carrie hamilton, sexual revolutions in cuba

chris chitty, sexual hegemony

christian fuchs, theorizing and analysing digital labor

eds. jules joanne gleeson and elle o'rourke, transgender marxism

elaine scarry, the body in pain

jules joanne gleeson, this infamous proposal

michael parenti, blackshirts & reds

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

peter drucker, warped: gay normality and queer anticapitalism

rosemary hennessy, profit and pleasure

sophie lewis, abolish the family

suzy kim, everyday life in the north korean revolution

walter rodney, the russian revolution: a view from the third world

#ask #avowed inframaterialist reading group #i obviously do not 100% agree with all the points made by and conclusions reached by these works #but i think they are valuable and useful to read