1. Which passports are the most accepted internationally? Singapore comes in at #1 with African nations ranking among the lowest.
2. Lupita is People Magazines most beautiful. We heart it.
[blockquote source=””]Black American women have been especially euphoric over Nyongo’s ascendancy…when Michelle Obama emerged as a potential first lady…black women volunteered, over and over, how thrilled they were to see that Barack Obama had a deeply brown wife. They loved her style, her confidence, and the fact that she might well become the first black first lady. There is some of that in the reaction to Nyong’o, too: Brown Girl Rising.[/blockquote]
3. The Influencers: TIME magazine names their 100 most influential. From Beyonce to billionaire Aliko Dangote, and activist Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, this list is eye-opening and in our view, well-chosen. We were especially pleased to see the inclusion of Africa’s most famous openly gay man, Binyavanga Wainaina.
[blockquote source=”TIME”]By the time he was 10 years old, Binyavanga Wainaina knew he was gay. But he lived in Kenya, a country that demonized homosexuality. And so for years he pretended to be what he was not. In December 2012, his friend — a fellow gay man who had also spent his life mired in pretense — got sick. Even as he lay dying, he could not tell his family that he was sick. His death broke Binyavanga’s spirit…By publicly and courageously declaring that he is a gay African, Binyavanga has demystified and humanized homosexuality and begun a necessary conversation that can no longer be about the “faceless other.”[/blockquote]
4. The Roots’ Questlove delivers the first part of this weeks’ long read: How Hip Hop failed Black America
5. Africa gets the Bitcoin bug
6. Writer, filmmaker and public intellectual Suchitra Vijayan takes down that viral New York Times photo essay that depicted the Rwandan genocide victims and their perps.
[blockquote source=””]How could the trauma be spoken of through one photograph, one voice? How can a range of contradictory and irreconcilable emotions of loss be explained through one narrative, one self? While photography is capable of opening up questions about power and authority, which are silenced, this essay adheres to frequently circulated and authoritative discursive practices. There is no critical enquiry of the premise that demands and dictates reconciliation; instead it de-facto buys into the assumptions.[/blockquote]
7. The story behind those Nairobi Mall terror attack photo’s.
8. British-Ghanaian director Amma Asante’s new movie Belle is picking up good reviews. Here, an interview with the Director.
Africa Redux Founder Chi Kaitano.
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