14 March, 2015

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Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked Ayi Kwei Armah: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

“Healing begins where the wound was made.”
–Alice Walker 

7 March, 2015

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Ali Farka Toure Toumani Diabate: Ali & Toumani Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks

“You go down to the pick up station craving warmth and beauty. You settle for less than fascination, a few drinks later you’re not so choosy.”  
–Joni Mitchell, Down to You

21 February, 2015

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Oliver Mtukudzi: Wonai Steven Johnson: Emergence

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”  
–Edgar Degas

 

14 February, 2015

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Leonard Dembo & The Barura Express: Chitekete Debbie Tucker Green: Stoning Mary

“In the morning there are lovers in the street, they look so high. You brush against a stranger and you both apologize”
— Joni Mitchell, Down to You

 

31 January, 2015

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Nas: Illmatic Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Like a Calgon commercial I’m gonna get up out of here.”
— Mariah Carey

24 January, 2015

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Nas: It Was Written Barney Simon: Born in the RSA

“Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
–Bertolt Brecht

17 January, 2014

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The Roots: Things Fall Apart Marcus Gardley: The House That Will Not Stand

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
— Gustave Flaubert