Wesley Mead Moe, Princess Kemi (Fox) In the first of a two-part project on The Simpsons, Wesley Mead, while reviewing “The Princess Guide” [s26 e15], examines the decline of The Simpsons, from the cultural touchstone it used to be to a weak, repetitive sitcom at 550+ episodes. The second part will be a collection of
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Since its launch in 2011, every edition of the Chronic has engaged, forcefully, with the question: When will the new emerge – and if it is already here, how do we decipher it? But no edition has addressed this query with as much urgency as our current project on cartographies. Broadly, the
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Dzekashu MacViban Stacy Hardy’s fiction navigates a written landscape between sexual politics and ontology, as the stories in Because the Night challenge the fetishization and objectification of the female body. Stacy Hardy (photo credit Niklas Zimmer) Because the Night by Stacy Hardy. Pocko, 2015, 152 pp. Some writers are eager to please; their words
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Ngime Epie Omam Biyik Scores his historic goal against world champions Argentina The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon have missed out on so many international football rendez-vous in recent years to the point that they are beginning to phase out of the memories of football lovers. Their latest miscarriage at this year’s African Cup of Nations
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© Andrea Bomo Face(s), here, implies manner, behavior, conduct, or lifestyle. Changing Face(s), thus, revises or reviews the manner, behavior or style in which we live. This issue becomes a forum to review urban fashion, and urban social identities, focusing on the present flux of how we change our view of the world, and the
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Ali Znaidi First session of The House of Fiction. Photo credit The House of Fiction Facebook Page. Can creative writing be taught? This question poses more issues than answers. Teaching creative writing is an established tradition in the West, especially in Anglophone countries. The first MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) in creative writing was inaugurated
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Interview by John Wisniewski Born in 1954 in Lusaka, Zambia, and of British nationality, Michael Baird spent his first 10 years in Zambia, then went to England and has been residing in Holland since he was 13. He founded the label SWP Records in 1986. Led the group Sharp Wood from 1986-96. He compiled
“The Clairvoyant” by Joyce Ashuntantang is part of #100DaysofAfricanReads (curated by @SisterKilljoy). It relates the moving story of how Ma Bechem, a Cameroonian seer, who is babysitting her daughter’s baby in Connecicut, is sought out by a woman who wants to understand the meaning of an enigmatic gift. The ensuing revelation is as poetic as
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Our cartoonist, Dante Besong, responds to the January 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo with a cartoon which isn’t short of irony.
The Guardian Africa network is a growing platform for journalists, writers and bloggers, assembling the best news and views from across the web to expand our coverage of the continent. Here, we introduce the new partners joining us in 2015 The full article is available on The Guardian here. Follow The Guardian’s new
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