On the ball: recently unveiled at the African Art Centre, Johannesburg, RSA is a series of paintings and sculptures by Lalelani Mbhele and Bhekinkosi Gumbe.
source: Mail & Guardian SA http://www.mg.co.za/section/arts
Loaded Web
African HipHop
"Where were you the day hiphop died? Is it too early to mourn or too late to ride?"
BEAUTIFUL BLACK JOHN
The Blogger With The Biggest Community Chest in TX - Monopoly's Got Nuthin On Him. Click on the Face.
BLOG RULE
Pick A Name, Any Name Anonymi. PLEASE Identify ThySelf
LEADERS OF ZIMBABWE'S 1ST CHIMURENGA; NEHANDA, KAGUVI & CHAMINUKA
jacked from neoformix.com
Dancing on the Moon
SUMBODI BROK AMURRYKA, WHO, WHO, WHO?
"TOWARDS AN EVER CLOSER UNION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS"
SIZE MATTERS?
Kaone Kario
Diamond from Botswana
LIYA KEBEDE
Ethiopian Empress
MS LAURYN
THANDISWA MAZWAI
Lead Singer of Bongo Maffin (SA)
Arminatta
'IF I COULD TEACH THE WORLD TO LIVE IN PERFECT HARMONY'
UN World Peace Pic, Words from Bone Thugs
H.I.M HAILE SELASSIE I
FROM LONDON TO HARARE
5 140 M, 8 272 km Location: Leicester Square, Lon, England. (Copyleft Kon Womyn)
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. Rev 1 v 17 - 18
The Black Madonna
THOMAS MALTHUS
copyleft DV.net
ACHTUNG
ANTI IRAQ WAR ART
By Mike Vallen, 2003
Mother Theresa
Iman
RAIMI GBADAMOSI, VISUAL ARTIST & SCHOLAR
"I believe in a world without borders"
"..if they desist, know well that Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Compassionate"
MALE & FEMALE CHROMOSOMES
There are about 20-30 human intersex states known.
Jarmila Kratochvílová, Czech Rep & Caster Semenya, RSA
The current women 800m world record holder Jarmila Kratochvílová, no questions of identity asked, but she looks just as if not more 'masculine' yet Semenya is also just as feminine as she.
STANISLLAWA WALASIEWICZ (STELLA WALSH), POLAND
Winner of the 100m race at the 1932 Olympics. She was forced to return her medals after the IOC found out that she a hermaphrodite.
MARIA JOSE MARTINEZ PATINO, SPAIN
The woman who battled to prove she was a woman.
SANTHI SOUNDARARJAN, INDIA
Winner of a Silver Medal at the 2006 Asian Games who 'failed' a gender test
MARIA MUTOLA, MOZAMBIQUE
African Champion with nine international titles to her name. When she first broke onto the international scene, rumours started doing the rounds she was a man and not a woman, but there was no substance to these ridiculous claims.
SERENA WILLIAMS, USA
Tennis Champ whose name has spun the rumour mills because of her masculine appearance...Nothing but jealousy.
MARION JONES, USA
Is this a thing of beauty? One blogger suggested from the neck down Semenya and Jones look the same. Could their capabilities in strength also be somewhat similar regardless of chromosomes & sans the performance enhancers Jones took?
DERARTU TULU, ETHIOPIA
First Black African to win an Olympic Medal in Barcelona, 1992. Nawal El-Mutawakel of Morrocco was the the first African to win an Olympic Medal in 1984.
ALICE COACHMAN, USA
First Black Woman to ever compete AND win Gold at the Olympics, Berlin Games, 1936
CASTER SEMENYA WINNER OF WOMEN'S 800M IAAF GAMES 2009
FROM PRESIDENT-ELECT TO PRESIDENT
THE JOKER - THE ORIGINAL
This was originally done by an art student, Firas Khateeb before B.O was inaugerated. It was a part of a series of experimental images not as expressive of political opinion.
How To Blow Up Two Heads At Once (Ladies)
By Yinka Shonibare, 2006
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
By Yinka Shonibare
BLACKFACE / MINSTREL FROM BAMBOOZLED
Now, this cuts DEEP!
HEATH LEDGER AS THE JOKER
FADED HIGH HOPES
OBAMA JOKER POSTER
SHEPARD FAIREY'S FAMOUS HOPE IMAGE
JAMES LILLIS "JOKE"
Nigerian Hair
SHUKU
Style originating from Yoruba culture symbolizing the woven baskets marketwomen carry on their heads
LA VIDA HAIR SALON
Arusha, Tanzania
Chris Rock
The Good Hair Show
Jamelia in India
100% Human Hair indeed!
Shingi Shoniwa, Lead Singer of The Noisettes
On hair: "I keep it funky with an afro on stage so I can rock out. No way I'd have a lace-front weave like Beyonce's."
NNENA AGBA
ANTM Cycle 6 repping for Nigeria
SaaRtje Baartman
MAGGIE DELVEAUX
The Congolese immigrant who set herself alight in protest to Belgium's racism
THIERRY HENRY
Plight of the Dispossessed People
Chagos Islanders protesting outside UK Houses of Parliament '08
chagos flag
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
Dub Poet
About Me
Arminatta
New Face on the Catwalk from Sierra Leone
THE WILLIAMS SISTERS
Shooting for Vogue
The Dearly Departed Miriam Makeba
WOMEN OF ERITREA
Mozambique
Samora Machel
Soweto Uprising 16 June 1976 by Sam Nzima
Hector Pieterson (Pitso) carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo & running alongside is Hector's sister, Antoinette
JACKSON 5
