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Pambazuka - Bahati’s bill: A convenient distraction for Uganda's government

October 20, 2009

Urgent Action Alert: Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill would criminalize writers, artists, theatre-makers, journalistsTuesday, October 20, 2009 7:22 PM From: This sender is DomainKeys verified"Shailja Patel" View contact details To: shailjapatel@gmail.com Friends and colleagues, Please read the action alert below, circulate widely, and act on it. Note that the draconian language of the bill would also criminalize writers, artists, scholars, journalists, performers, of any sexual orientation, whose work might be interpreted as "promoting homosexuality". Such as the Caine Prize-winning story "Jambula Tree" by Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko. It is therefore, a sweeping attack on creativity, imagination, scholarship, journalism, freedom of artistic expression, that we cannot allow to be implemented. In community, -- Shailja Patel www.shailja.com Cell: 510 282-3448 Youtube video of "Eater of Death" at Bioneers http://www.youtube.com/user/Bioneers#p/...

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August 18, 2009

Talking Nollywood in Lisbon

August 09, 2009

It was at the African Screens..... And i was there with Manthia Diawara, Awam Amkpa, Balufu Kupanda, and others chaperoned by hardworking Noeele Georg Laos and Paula Nascimento. Great event. The Nigerian Ambassador to Portugal showed up with his daughter.. and spoke up Nollywood in the context of Nation Building and the Dora Akunyili-powered Rebranding Project. African Screen is a project of a group of great friends of Africa, who believe that the story of the continent is better told through the prisms of the Film... Nollywood or its big brother....

It happened in Durban

August 09, 2009

Adeyemi Ayodeji, a Business Correspondent with Tell Magazine who won the Sports award with his story, Game of Gold, that narrates how some Nigerians have been exploiting the English Premier League, EPL, to better their economic lot. He winning ace, according to the judges was the refreshing dimension that he brought to Sports reporting: and the depth of his investigation which dwelt on facts and actualities. Ayodeji studied Economics at the University of Ibadan, and joined Tell Communications in 2006, rising this year to become the Business Correspondent this year. Tolu Ogunlesi, who was specially celebrated for the power of his language and prose, won the Arts & Culture Award for his story, What The Truck?, a narrative on Lagos eclectic living culture and the psychological comportment of Lagosians through the prisms of the graffiti on the city notorious means of transportation, the Molue alias ‘Funky Train’. Tolu who wrote the story as the contributing editor of Glide Magazine, is...

Where Are my Pals?

July 08, 2009

Twenty Boys will never play together for 20 years.. well, this is a very rough translation of a saying in Yoruba... which connotes that no matter how closely knitted, human beings who grew up together would not be able to live together, or interract all through their lives. The fellows in this picture were my closest buddies in 1993, when i had some months of educational programmes in Staufen near Freiburg in 1993. We were the hippies in those days.. when we entered any restaurant or bar ... gaaaaawwwd!!! (we did have a go at nearly all of them in that small village-town...) the whole house would crumble.... those blood-eyed boys have come in...!!! we were noisy.. intelligently so..... boisterous... decent about it.... we stirrred more than enough trouble to last the town a whole moon... but we were also way upbeat in our studies. Since those days ( i recall it was in the heat of the June 12 debacle and i had to return home unplanned because my employers thought i ought to come back to...

RAIN OF TRIBUTES TO MY BRODAMAN

June 18, 2009

The US-based Actor, Theatre Director, and currently Head of Directing at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Prof. Segun Ojewuyi, was 50 on Monday, June 15. Typical of the activist theatre man, he literally ‘directed’ all his friends not to as much as utter a word about his attainment of golden age. But trust the artistes community to ‘obey’ orders (only in reverse), even from the most insistent director of Ojewuyi’s calibre, they still went ahead to celebrate the man, who has done much to put theatre directing on a high pedestal. The tributes, which were collected from colleagues, friends and admirers from across the ocean -- spanning Nigeria, United Kingdom and the United States, were collated by Florida US-based Culture activist and photo-documentarist, KOLE ADE-ADUTOLA, who told The Guardian that he embarked on the project as a ‘way of encouraging the proper narration and documentation of the history of contemporary art practice in Nigeria”. Ade-Odutola, who in the ninet...