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<artist> Dineo Seshee Bopape

Dineo Seshee Bopape, "I like to remember things in my own way", 2010. Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. In the year of her birth, the Brixton riots took place; two people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Durban shopping centre. Bobby Sands dies, MTV is launched, the Boeing 767 makes its first air flight, Umkhonto we Sizwe performs numerous underground assault operations against the apartheid state....

<artist> Emeka Ogboh

Emeka Ogboh works primarily with sounds in exploring ways of understanding cities as cosmopolitan spaces with their unique characters. It has been his goal to employ field recordings to explore the history and aural infrastructure of cities, in particular his hometown Lagos, Nigeria. As a metropolis ultimately influenced by universal globalization processes, Lagos is a mélange of new and old, modern and archaic, first and third world. With an archival intent, he has recorded sounds at s...

Digital Africa

DIGITAL AFRICA Digital Creation and Innovations in Africa Bilingual Book (French/English) - Publication date: March 2013 - Publisher: MCD. Digital Africa is a bilingual paper book published by the MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales) magazine in Paris, which presents a selection of African productions linking artistic creation to digital technologies. It was instigated by Karen Dermineur (guest Editor-in-Chief). This publication provides an insightful view on a subject mat...