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Amindi, the Luvr Girl

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For her debut project, Nice, Amindi didn’t want to write about romantic love. “You know the Bechdel test? I wanted my project to pass the Bechdel test.” The Inglewood native had just gotten out of a relationship and she wanted to challenge herself to find another way to cope, outside of what she already knew would come easy for her.  “I’m so inclined to writing love songs, I’m a libra,” she says matter of factly. So instead, Amindi wrote about all other kinds of love; love in friendship, love of self, even love of money, anything but love of men.  https://www.thefloormag.com/post/amindi-the-luvr-girl

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mau from nowhere Just Wants To Have Fun

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Making music is a typically a heavy process for mau from nowhere. The Kenyan multi-hyphenated artist has made a name for himself with an alternative sound to go along with his tender exploration of the heart centre. His handiwork reflects the intensity of the process, as the majority of his released music is immensely vulnerable- “vintage mau,” he calls it. 

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Tanzania makes historic debut at the 60th Venice Art Biennale

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Tanzania is for the first time participating in the 60th edition of the prestigious Venice Biennale, one of the longest-running and most renowned international art exhibitions. Running from April to November, this year’s edition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa under the theme, ‘Foreigners Everywhere.’ Tanzania’s pavilion, curated by Enrico Bittoto, explores the theme, “A Flight in Reverse Mirrors (The Discovery of the Other)” and delves into four significant eras of Tanzania’s history, from the 19th century to the early 21st century.

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Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books”

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki Bgoya, speaks about its significance in the Swahili canon.

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