Black Looks

I have said this a couple of times, I don’t like memes – this one is different as it doesn’t ask you to reveal personal information about your peculiarities or the 5 silliest things you did in your life etc. The Thinking Blogger Award is for blogs that make you think – you don’t have to agree with them, just that they make you think. With this one my participation became unavoidable as for one thing I got doubly tagged by Renegade Eye and by my commarade Rethabile via his Poeafrika blog so a big thanks to both of you for including me on your list.
and secondly it is the “Thinking Blog Award” afterall!!

Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote ([T]here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).

After a lot of thinking here is my five in no particular order:

This is not my Country by DD. Her work on the Roma Series has been monumental in reporting on the lives and struggles of the Roma community in Greece.

Kenya Democracy Project by Onyango Oloo who was the National Co-ordinator of the Secretariat and Organizing Committee of this year’s WSF Nairobi which has been serverely criticised by participants as, to use Oloo’s words [an]“….event gave rise to disturbing and negative tendencies such as commercialization, militarization and authoritarian and undemocratic decision making in the World Social Forum process”. Oloo covers commentary covers Kenya, Africa and the world.

Sabbah’s Blog My window into Palestine and the wider Middle East. Palestinian blogger, Haitham has been attacked and called all kind of names but he is never phased in his determination to present his in depthcommentary. His blog has become a huge resource on the Israeli occupation of Palestine and last July’s invasion of Lebanon by Israel.

Women of Color Blog. Radical woman of color, fearless, intelligent and always challenging.

Kameelah Writes. Kameelah on why she writes:

why i write-speak//* because i am not supposed to. …..and audre lorde said ‘what are the words you don’t yet have? what do you need to say? what are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, in silence?

I could easily have come up with another 5 but I am working on the premise (and hoping) a few of the one’s I have left out will come up via some of the one’s listed here.