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Tear My Bra, a Nollywood Exhibition for Africa POP at Rencontres d’Arles

Alithnayn Abdulkareem At its simplest, “Tear My Bra” carries no hindsight or foreshadowing. It doesn’t even attempt to reflect the Nigerian film environment. It just takes Nollywood, filmmaking in an African context, takes it a little bit apart and presents it to an audience largely unfamiliar with the product.   Holly Gollightly waits at the

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Bakwa 06

Bakwa 06 June 2,2014 What is Lapiro de Mbanga’s place in the pantheon of protest music? Does BrymO’s vision of Lagos capture what the city feels like, or does it provoke a 19th century Dickensian image of a failing industrial city? Plus poetry in Pidgin, Creole, Spanglish, Sheng, English and more by Minna Salami, Jack

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Haiku by Virginie Colline; Illustration "Mark Twain Fish Fry" by Mark Erickson

Batik Haiku dreamy eye phosphenes a pineapple split open across your canvas Mark Erickson is a painter and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his interest in art while attending schools in Munich, Germany and Torino, Italy. Mark completed his art training at the Academy of Art and the Art

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Visual Art by Eleanor Leonne Bennett

                                               Get backbetteron                                                                            Boat race                                               Legs                                      Metal meal Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the

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