Africa is a Great Country to Photograph

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Swedish photographer and visual artist Jens Assur has spent ten months producing an exhibition of 40 enormous-size, large-format photographs chronicling structural patterns in the everyday life of twelve of Africa's rapidly-changing urban centers, currently showing at the Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm. And by some coincidence, he's gone for a title of similar intent as this blog's: the whole thing is titled…

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A Swedish photographer Jens Assur gives us a different look at our massive continent. His interview is also very interesting. I hope this exhibit does more rounds than it intends to.

Chinua Achebe 1930-2013

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Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.  -- Things Fall Apart.

It is not a surprise the amount of tributes that have poured in from around the world following the passing on of perhaps Nigeria's greatest ever writer. Chinualumogu Albert Achebe died last night aged 82.

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"It is not a surprise the amount of tributes that have poured in from around the world following the passing on of perhaps Nigeria’s greatest ever writer. Chinualumogu Albert Achebe died last night aged 82. Why was Chinua Achebe so readable and Wole Soyinka almost inscrutable? The former was a writer, a storyteller — the latter is a poet who just happens to write. " A short tribute to Chinua Achebe who passed on recently at 82.