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“Nderedi” by SIMPHIWE DANA

I found this video years ago, and I’m still waiting for someone to give me the translation. :( This is a South African artist with amazing talents.

The concept of this video has been described on various websites/blogs:

“a sketch of a future africa in which the west never had a hand…looking at utopian ideas based on african philosophy”

“african futurism based on traditional african principles”

Could someone please give me the lyrics?

(Source: vulva-perigrination)

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“I see Feminism as one system of analyzing the formation of private and public identity as well as a political impulse toward freedom equality. There are other such endeavors such as Critical Studies and Afrocentrism. The premise of much of my work is that race exists only as a social construction and not as a fact of biology. Feminist analysis of the construction of gender, was my avenue to better understanding the formation of a racialized individual and group.” -Mequitta Ahuja, the artist

“I see Feminism as one system of analyzing the formation of private and public identity as well as a political impulse toward freedom equality. There are other such endeavors such as Critical Studies and Afrocentrism. The premise of much of my work is that race exists only as a social construction and not as a fact of biology. Feminist analysis of the construction of gender, was my avenue to better understanding the formation of a racialized individual and group.”

-Mequitta Ahuja, the artist

(Source: afrovisionary)

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