@archiveafrica * Senegal 🇸🇳* Stills from the film Tauw by Ousmane Sembène/1970. Tauw is one of Sembène’s early short works. It tells the story of two brothers in the generation after independence. Tauw, an unemployed 20-year-old, must deal with the consequences of the shifting morality and stifled job market in urban Senegal, while 11-year old Ouman must confront the contradictions of his religious instruction. Naturalistic in its presentation, Tauw dramatizes how unprepared both are to face the realities presented by a changing society. Although the story is a simple one, it is forcefully drawn and still poignant. Words via https://africanfilmny.org/films/tauw/ Stills via @idelrasheed on TT - - - - - - - #mali #art #africa #nigeria #senegal #cameroon #carribean #africanart #eastafrica #youth #jamaica #westafrica #architecture #35mm #africanphotography #sudan #culture #fashion #southafrica #africanarchitecture #anthroplogy #ethiopia #Lagos #photography #southafrica #dance #Eritrea #eastafrica #cinema #film #benin #somalia
instagram.com@archiveafrica * Senegal 🇸🇳* Stills from the film Tauw by Ousmane Sembène/1970. Tauw is one of Sembène’s early short works. It tells the story of two brothers in the generation after independence. Tauw, an unemployed 20-year-old, must deal with the consequences of the shifting morality and stifled job market in urban Senegal, while 11-year old Ouman must confront the contradictions of his religious instruction. Naturalistic in its presentation, Tauw dramatizes how unprepared both are to face the realities presented by a changing society. Although the story is a simple one, it is forcefully drawn and still poignant. Words via https://africanfilmny.org/films/tauw/ Stills via @idelrasheed on TT - - - - - - - #mali #art #africa #nigeria #senegal #cameroon #carribean #africanart #eastafrica #youth #jamaica #westafrica #architecture #35mm #africanphotography #sudan #culture #fashion #southafrica #africanarchitecture #anthroplogy #ethiopia #Lagos #photography #southafrica #dance #Eritrea #eastafrica #cinema #film #benin #somalia
the promise of postapartheid South Africa has not been realized. For its part, Nigeria was a British colony for a century before gaining its independence in 1960. The country’s subsequent history can only be described as deeply troubled; its initial decades were marked by civil war, secessionist challenges, and military rule. Its politics seem to h
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop
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