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	<title>Black Looks &#187; African History</title>
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		<title>A history to remember: &#8220;Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221; Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins with a brief account of his own imprisonment at the age of 16 where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audre Lorde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Lesbian Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cannot wait for this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz&#8217;s Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of immigrants from Grenada, who died rather young at 58 years old in 1992. Specifically, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anything but Black &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/anything-but-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afro Descendants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recolonisation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documentary series explores the complexities of racism and colourism in Central and South America! &#8220;Who do you think you&#8217;re kidding &#8211; you ARE Black&#8221;, &#8220;You aren&#8217;t really Black&#8221;, &#8220;You&#8217;re mixed race / half caste / mestizo / mulato&#8221;, &#8220;Actually you&#8217;re white&#8221;. Reminds me of the &#8220;UnAfrican&#8221; conversation, an essentialist notion of blackness where people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batsumi : Masterpiece AfroJazz</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/batsumi-masterpiece-afrojazz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1970s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afrobeat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AfroJazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batsumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radical Soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformational Organising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rise up music &#8211; forget the coffee just think Batsumi! &#8220;rare indigenous afro-jazz sounds from South Africa with the release of Sowetan group Batsumi&#8217;s self-titled debut from 1974. The reissue has been lovingly re-mastered from the original tapes and features material compiled on the recent Next Stop Soweto series from Strut. The album arrived amidst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Earned the Right to Speak about Anything</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/how-i-earned-the-right-to-speak-about-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afikpo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books: Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clarice Lispector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethinicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helene Cixous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ile-Ife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard, as I am sure most writers know, to efface the person, render it impotent in the face of the writing life. Who I am always haunts my writing; and this is why and how I argue that I have earned the right to speak about anything – and you might want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beauty of revolution &#8211; Steve Biko lives!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/09/the-beauty-of-revolution-steve-biko-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/09/the-beauty-of-revolution-steve-biko-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abhalali baseMjondolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S'bu Zikode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Biko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformational Organising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two interesing and not unrelated blog posts to mark the 34th anniversary of Steve Biko&#8216; death. In the first Khadija Patel interviews Andile Mngxitama, South African Black consciousness activists and co-editor of &#8220;Biko Lives!&#8221; &#8211; the mistake is to have believed he died on that day 34 years ago. It is much harder to kill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Mamba Boy</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/06/black-mambo-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somali writer Nadifa Mohamed discusses her novel Black Mamba Boy inspired by the life of her father &#8211; often written about but never have their perspective represented.]]></description>
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		<title>Helsinki African Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/8153/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 14:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African women in Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helsinki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wanjiju wa Ngugi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wanjiku wa Ngugi is the founder of the  Helsinki African Film Festival. Here she talks about Africa in Finland and this year&#8217;s theme &#8220;Women’s Voices and Visions”. Wanjiku, please talk a bit about yourself and the creation of the Helsinki African Film Festival. I was born and raised in Kenya. After high school, I attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Indio&#8221; being not-black in Dominican Republic</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/indio-being-not-black-in-dominican-republic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/05/indio-being-not-black-in-dominican-republic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 14:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hispaniola]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting look at the construction of race through the island of Hispaniola &#8211; In the Dominican Republic, there is Cristóbal Colón, Black is Indio and Spain is homeland. In Haiti, there are revolutionaries &#8211; Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, Black is Black and Africa is where I came from. Ok its a bit more complex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The last word has not been spoken&#8221; &#8211; Beah Richards</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/03/a-woman-read-a-poem-beah-richards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/03/a-woman-read-a-poem-beah-richards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beah Richards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Actress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched Beah Richards in many films and I remember reading somewhere about her poetry. But I never knew she was a feminist, wrote powerful political poetry speaking truth to power; was a playwright, a strong fiercely political, inspirationally powerful Black woman. Richards had no fear of speaking out at on her commitment to truth [...]]]></description>
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