‘Everywhere I look, and most of the time I look, I see photographs.’ (Bert Hardy) This is a lovely overview of the entire career of acclaimed English photographer Bert Hardy (1913 to 1995), responsible for some of the most iconic shots of British life in the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition includes: 87 black-and-white prints two […]
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Bert Hardy: Photojournalism in War and Peace @ the Photographers’ Gallery
Tagged 35mm Leica, AFPU, Army Film and Photographic Unit, Belsen, Ben Macintyre, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bert Hardy, black-and-white photography, Blackfriars, Blackpool, British life, Cardiff University, Central Photo Service, Cockney Life in the Elephant and Castle, Cold War, Cycling magazine, Cyprus, D-Day, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, Douro Valley, Elephant and Castle, English photographer, General Photographic Agency, Germany, Great Depression, Greek civil war, Guinness, Hulton Archive, Inchon landing, Kenya, King George V, Korean War, Liberation of Paris, life, London, Lord Mountbatten, Malaya, Mau Mau, Normandy, Paris Opera, photographs, photography, photography history, photojournalism, Photojournalism in War and Peace, Picture Post, Portugal, SAS, Second World War, Singapore, social history, The Gorbals Boys, Tom Hopkinson, twentieth century, Weekly Illustrated, Yemen
Posted by Simon on March 20, 2024
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A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1967)
This is Thiongo’s third novel and a significant step up from the first two. It’s the first one I’d recommend to other people to read. For the third time in a row he makes a point of mentioning the Gikuyu prophet, Mugo wa Kibiro, who predicted the coming of the white man, ‘dressed like butterflies’ […]
Posted by Simon on February 14, 2024
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The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1965)
The ways of the ridges, the ancient wisdom of the land, its song and ritual. (Traditional tribal values as expressed by the wise old man, Chege, page 52) The River Between is Thiongo’s second novel (although the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition tells us he wrote it first). It opens with a description of […]
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Posted by Simon on February 12, 2024
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Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1964)
‘Hurrah and victory for the black folk!’ (Typically naive political slogan Weep Not, Child, page 73) Weep Not, Child was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s first novel, written in English and published in 1964, the same year as Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s third novel, Arrow of God. But whereas Achebe wrote about the Igbo people in Nigeria […]
Tagged Africa, African literature, Alan Rickman, Algeria, black people, Boro, British Empire, Christianity, colonialism, colour bar, Darkness Falls, divide and rule, domestic abuse, East Africa, education, female circumcision, fiction, First World War, FLN, folk stories, Freedom Boys of the Forest, Gĩkũyũ, Heinemann African Writers, homeguard, House of Pain, Isaka, Jacobo, Jomo, Jomo Kenyatta, Juliana, Kamahou Intermediate School, Kamau, Kenya, Kenya Emergency, Kenyan State of Emergency, Kikuyu, Kipanga, Kori, Mahua, Mau Mau, Mau Mau oath, Mau Mau rebellion, Mr Howlands, Mugo wa Kibiro, Murungu, Mwangi, Mwihaki, Ngotho, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o', Njeri, Njoroge, novel, Nyokabi, patriarchy, Second World War, Siriana secondary school, story, the Creator, the Heinemann African Writers' series, The Waning Light, torture, Uganda, Viet Cong, Weep Not Child, white man, white people
Posted by Simon on February 9, 2024
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Entangled Pasts, 1768 to Now: Art, Colonialism and Change @ the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy has discovered that Britain used to have an empire, and that this empire and many other aspects of British culture and economy were deeply indebted to the Atlantic slave trade and wants to tell everyone about it! Those of us who have known, read and written about the British Empire and the Atlantic […]
Tagged abolition of slavery, Adam Hochschild, After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400 to 2000, American plantations, American War of Independence, Anthony Sullivan, antisemitism, Arab slave trade, Arab slavers, art, Atlantic slave trade, atom bomb, BBC Natural History unit, Bernard Edwards, Betye Saar, Black artists, Black Lives Matter, Britain, Britain's War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron 1807 to 1867, British Empire, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery, Church of England, colonial gaze, colonial guilt, colonial heritage, colonial past, cotton, Diane Abbott, Edward Colston, Ellen Gallagher, exhibition, Frank Bowling, Frank Hester, Frederick Douglass, Gaza, Greater Zimbabwe, Hamas, Hew Locke, history, imperialism, installation, Isaac Julien, Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora, Islamic world, Islamophobia, Israel, J.M.W. Turner, John Akomfreh, John Darwin, John Singleton Copley, Joshua Reynolds, Kara Walker, Ku Klux Klan, Lee Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Mali Empire, Mohini Chandra, multicultural society, Napoleonic Wars, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, National Trust, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o', Olaudah Equiano, Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade Paperback, Paul Lovejoy, Peter Grindal, RA, Ralph Austen, Raymond Mauvey, Ronald Segal, Royal Academy, Royal Navy, Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808 to 1898, Sadiq Khan, sculpture, Seven Years War, Sir Joshua Reynolds, slave labour, slave trade, Slavery, Sonia Boyce, sugar, Tavares Strachan, The Royal Academy, tobacco, transatlantic slave trade, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, whaling, Yinka Shonibare
Posted by Simon on March 16, 2024
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Prester John by John Buchan (1910)
I was going into the black mysterious darkness, peopled by ten thousand cruel foes. (Davie Crawfurd penetrating the headquarters of the great black rebellion, Prester John page 99) John Buchan (1875 to 1940) was absolutely determined to be a writer, and started being published while still at university in the 1890s. Prester John was Buchan’s sixth […]
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Posted by Simon on February 16, 2024
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Africa reviews
Blog posts on books or exhibitions about or related to Africa. Links/titles which aren’t yet live indicate reviews I’m going to publish over the next month. Pre-history The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer (2011) Ancient Africa Plutarch’s Life of Pompey Plutarch’s Life of Cato the Younger Plutarch’s Life of Antony The Alexandrian War […]
Posted by Simon on November 8, 2023
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