Africa Is a Country

Occupy Africa

Occupy Africa

By
Sean Jacobs

Last week on Columbus Day, Sahara Reporters, the Nigeria-focused New York City-based website, sent a crew down to Zucoti Park where anti-Wall Street protesters are camping out.

There they filmed Olga El, who runs “a dance theater for social change.” Topless (it’s legal in New York City), she went on about representing for Africa and native people against imperialism. Her ancestors “are from all over Africa and native American.” As for her outfit, it was “a fusion of things going on in my outfit.”

Earlier today, Ikenna of What’s Up Africa, pointed to some of the craziness in the video by Sahara Reporters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMuPFvNjjjE

Stop when Ikenna goes for Judge Hatchet. (BTW, we did here. )

Back to Olga.

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.