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		<title>A review of the film Xala – “Vagabonds in Power” (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 2 of the review of Xala by Paul Schloss of  Serenity Science. This piece is a work of criticism  based on an impressionistic reading of the Senegalese film – Xala which in the Wolof language means &#8220;temporary sexual impotence&#8221;. &#160; The (male) elite need the idea of an African culture to give them legitimacy, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A review of the film Xala &#8211; &#8220;Vagabonds in Power&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by: Paul Schloss – who is described affectionately as a &#8220;professional amateur&#8221;. Paul Schloss writes about history, literature, film, art and politics at Serenity Science. This piece is a work of criticism  based on an impressionistic reading of the Senegalese film Xala, which in the Wolof language means &#8220;temporary sexual impotence&#8221;. &#160; Brothers and sisters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africans on the 2013 TIME Magazine List of the 100 most influential people in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/04/africans-on-the-2013-time-magazine-list-of-the-100-most-influential-people-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TIME 100 issue represents TIME magazine&#8217;s choices for the 100 most influential people in the world. It’s their 10th year of doing this list. Last year’s list included Egypt’s Fatima Ibrahim, Nigeria’s Goodluck Johnson and Gambia’s Fatou Banda as the only Africans on the list. This year sees Nigeria’s Omotoloa Jalade-Ekeinde, Egypt’s Bassem Youssef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A photographic portrait of the Scottish kilt wearing Zulu men of Nazareth Baptist Church</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/04/a-photographic-portrait-of-the-scottish-kilt-wearing-zulu-men-of-nazareth-baptist-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting take on how the adornments of colonialism has become the uniform of the Nazareth Baptist Church, a church founded in 1910 in South Africa by Isaiah Shembe and mixes Zulu tradition and Christianity. The 4 million strong church according to wiki &#8220;bans smoking, drinking, and fornicating and reveres Shembe as an African Messiah and emphasizes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Cyrus Kabiru gains global attention with his wearable eyewear goggles</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/04/artist-cyrus-kabiru-gains-global-attention-with-his-wearable-eyewear-goggles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan artist and TEDGlobal fellow, Cyrus Kabiru talked about his C-Stunners work &#8211; wearable eyewear sculptures made from found materials in Nairobi to CNN this week. MyWeku first met up and interviewed Cyrus Kabiru in 2010 when his art was mainly only recognised locally. . In MyWeku&#8217;s piece with Cyrus Kabiru he stated to us that he likes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remarking on the Silent Majority Project in Makoko Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/03/remarking-on-the-silent-majority-project-in-makoko-nigeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Makoko, one of Nigeria’s slums has been on our minds recently. We wrote about its awesome floating school not too long ago. Today, Makoko is being featured again, but for its art installation.  An art-photography workshop has been set up for underprivileged kids from Makoko who apparently would normally be seen doing petty trading on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast: Celebrating traditional Costumes</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/03/ivory-coast-celebrating-traditional-costumes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional costumes of the Ivory Coast expresses an identity which is usually associated with West Africa and a period of time in Ivorian history, but it also indicates social, marital and/or religious status. Most of the costumes featured below come in one form: for festivals and formal wear. Sahelian Africa has the Dashiki, Senegalese Khaftan and the grand boubou. East Africa has the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the Week: &#8220;My writing is nothing; my boxing is everything&#8221; &#8211; Ernest Hemingway</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/03/photo-of-the-week-my-writing-is-nothing-my-boxing-is-everything-ernest-hemingway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My writing is nothing my boxing is every thing&#8221; -Hemingway in a conversation with Josephine Herbst This from a man who is reputed to have been one of the finest writers to have lived. The photo shows Ernest Hemingway in East Africa boxing. He won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes during his life time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-emerging Jews: The Jews of Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/03/re-emerging-jews-the-jews-of-nigeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short preview of Jeff Lieberman’s first feature length documentary Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria. There is also an interesting article on the motivation behind the film maker’s decision to make the film here.   Synopsis: &#8220;RE-EMERGING: The Jews of Nigeria&#8221; is a journey into the heart of Igboland and into the lives and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinua Achebe &#8220;An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad&#8217;s &#8216;Heart of Darkness&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.myweku.com/2013/03/chinua-achebe-an-image-of-africa-racism-in-conrads-heart-of-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achebe, Chinua. &#8220;An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad&#8217;s &#8216;Heart of Darkness&#8217;&#8221; Massachusetts Review. 18. 1977. Rpt. in Heart of Darkness, An Authoritative Text, background and Sources Criticism. 1961. 3rd ed. Ed. Robert Kimbrough, London: W. W Norton and Co., 1988, pp.251-261 In the fall of 1974 I was walking one day from the English [...]]]></description>
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