Black Looks

• The Joker is wild

  Posted: July 31, 2008, 4:29 pm by Sokari

  A couple of years ago - maybe a year I cant remember - I read a blog post by Keguro on things he thought of / wanted to blog about but didn’t. Thinking about blogging on something and not doing it is a sure sign of blogger paralysis / disinterest / being blogged out [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Joker is wild", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/the_joker_is_wild.html" });

• links for 2008-07-30

  Posted: July 30, 2008, 7:33 pm by Sokari

  Matt Simmons and Peak Oil: How to Silence Fast Money Team : TreeHugger (tags: environment oil perspective) OSRAM|About Us|Society and the Environment - Global Care|Products and the environment|Off-Grid Lighting|index (tags: ecology green products kenya) Blackdown:Upping Dubset (tags: music blogging uk) My Mercedes is not for sale - photos | Mein Mercedes ist nicht zu verkaufen - Fotos (tags: travel photography funny blog [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-07-30", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/links_for_2008-07-30.html" });

• Action alert: putting the pressure on Mugabe

  Posted: July 28, 2008, 1:13 am by Sokari

  Sokwanele are calling supporters to take action against Austrian company : Jura JSP ACTION: We are calling on all our supporters and subscribers today to phone, email and write to Jura JSP and ask them to withdraw the software licence from the Zimbabwean government on the grounds that the cash they print has been used to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Action alert: putting the pressure on Mugabe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/action_alert_putting_the_pressure_on_mugabe.html" });

• Molesters and Voters

  Posted: July 28, 2008, 11:32 pm by Sokari

  Marko Phiri of Kubatana draws the analogy between women being unable to exercise their democratic right to vote for their choice of candidate and that of the right of a woman not to be physically molested and to dress as she pleases. I listened with disgust the other day to a woman and two men [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Molesters and Voters", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/molesters_and_voters.html" });

• African artists respond to social injustice

  Posted: July 28, 2008, 10:37 am by Sokari

  “Reflections in Exile: Five Contemporary African Artists Respond to Social Injustice” at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury. The show collects work by five immigrants, four of them now living in Greater Boston, the fifth a former MassArt student. Slide Show Tags: African Art Social Injustice SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "African artists respond to social injustice", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/african_artists_respond_to_social_injustice.html" });

• Kids behind Playstation 2

  Posted: July 26, 2008, 2:00 pm by Sokari

  “Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms,” Links: Playstation Wars Tags: Coltan Sony Play Station DRC SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Kids behind Playstation 2", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/the_real_war_behind_playstation_2.html" });

• Hate speech kills

  Posted: July 25, 2008, 3:13 pm by Sokari

  Tags: LGBTI South Africa Hate Speech Homophobia SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hate speech kills", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/hate_speech_kills.html" });

• Appalling homophobia

  Posted: July 24, 2008, 8:51 pm by Sokari

  My first reaction was “here we go again” but this is far worse. I’m referring to an article in the South African Sunday Sun “Call me names but gay is NOT OK”. The article - which includes a despicable cartoon equating same sex realtionships with bestiality, calls for a rewriting of the SA constitution [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Appalling homophobia", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/appalling_homophobia.html" });

• Not taking poverty seriously

  Posted: July 24, 2008, 2:29 pm by Sokari

  The South African supermarket chain Shoprite has been expanding into various countries across the continent, including Nigeria, for the past 10 years. The Lagos branch is part of the “Palms” mall complex at Lekki Beach opened in late 2005 and one of two malls on Victoria Island, Lagos’s most expensive real estate. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Not taking poverty seriously", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/not_taking_poverty_seriously.html" });

• Remember Olive Morris? - History of Black Britain

  Posted: July 22, 2008, 9:13 pm by Sokari

  I was not here in the 70s so no, I don’t remember Olive Morris but do remember the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in the early 80s which she was a founder member. Morris was part of the Brixton Black Panther Party and early post -WWII Black struggle in Britain. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remember Olive Morris? - History of Black Britain", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/remember_olive_morris_-_history_of_black_britain.html" });

• To anyone who reads this blog

  Posted: July 21, 2008, 5:01 pm by Sokari

  Just in case anyone noticed I have been away for the past 3 weeks (Nigeria). Wish I had something to say about the trip but am too tired and there are too many stories to know where to begin and even after a mere 24 hours it all seems to incredibly far away in some [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "To anyone who reads this blog ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/to_anyone_who_reads_this_blog_.html" });

• Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!

  Posted: July 18, 2008, 12:13 pm by Rethabile

  Today ntate Mandela is 63 years old, if you consider the fact that he spent 27 years in jail for wanting to live like a human, and wanting the same thing for his people. But he’s really 90 years old, if you consider the fact that he used those 27 years to change South Africa [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/mandela_birthday_rethabile.html" });

• TROUBLEMAKER for ntate Madiba, with respect When ...

  Posted: July 16, 2008, 12:23 pm by Rethabile

  TROUBLEMAKER for ntate Madiba, with respect When his voice hit the audience, breaking to pieces the only peace we knew and were sharing among barbed houses on a hill, it sent birds off to where startled shards go, his voice the thing we’d sought to shake our poetry, make sense of the world the way a bullet never will. A shipment of negroes leaves the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/troublemaker_by_rethabile.html" });

• Lesotho PM backs Mugabe

  Posted: July 10, 2008, 1:39 am by Rethabile

  The Prime Minister of Lesotho, Pakalitha Mosisili, is said to have thrown his weight behind Robert Mugabe. For a while I had started whining about the lack of a position on the part of the Lesotho government. Now, here it is. I’m sorry that it doesn’t please me. Mr Mosisili “told foreign powers on Wednesday [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lesotho PM backs Mugabe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/lesotho_pm_backs_mugabe.html" });

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