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Avatar: An Allegory for Colonial Era Africa?

December 19, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
James Cameron’s latest epic AVATAR arguably represents the greatest shift in filmmaking since 1999’s THE MATRIX. While it won’t break any grounds on story or ...
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Ugandan Civil War Stories…The Comic Book

September 9, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Unknown Soldier is a new comicbook mini-sieries from DC Comics that attempts to tackle the complex history of Uganda’s struggle with the LRA. Unknown Soldier, published ...
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In Search of… African Sci-Fi Film

September 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
So the search turned up a few ‘classic’ African novels but not much else. GhanaGeek wrote on the very subject a few years ago, wondering ...
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In Search of… African Sci-Fi Novels

September 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I have to admit when I watched this scene from THE MATRIX RELOADED with all the dancing people in Zion, I couldn’t help but wonder ...
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Things Still Fall Apart

March 31, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever,” says one of the characters in Chinua Achebe’s classic book THINGS FALL APART. It’s been half ...
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This Week In Appfrica [Jan 18 - 24, 2009]

January 25, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this ...
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Okukuba akatabo k’Afirika ku yintanenti

January 22, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“sayansi w’okupangiliza ekintu nga tekiriiyo y’emu ku ngeri esanyusa okweelaliikirira ebiribaawo gyebujja. Akozesa engero z’ebiribaawo gyebujja okwang’anga ebizibu bya leero.” Kevin Kelly gyebuvuddeko yawandiika ebigambo ebyo ...
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Blogging an African Novel

January 21, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“Science fiction is an entertaining way to worry about the present. It uses stories set in the future to confront issues of today.” Kevin Kelly recently ...
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Looking for the African Akira

November 26, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
What better measure of society is there than through the fiction it creates? In 1988 the Japanese animation feature film AKIRA was released to the ...
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