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Published to accompany the Red Africa season staged at Calvert 22 Foundation’s exhibition space in London, 4 Feb — 3 April 2016. Red Africa was a "season of art, films, talks and events exploring the legacy of the cultural relationships between Africa, the Soviet Union and related countries that flourished during the Cold War."
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/5324/red-africa-special-report
CONTENTS
Red Africa: Exploring the legacy of international socialist relations with Africa in art, film, architecture and music.
* Red Africa: Introduction
* Journey to the sun: True-life photos from Africa's almost-real first space mission
* Waiting for Tito: Unofficial scenes from a presidential tour of Africa
* The Pyongyang connection: North Korea's strange and surprisingly effective charm offensive in Africa
* Art, image, ideology: The history of Soviet relations with Africa, as told in pictures
* Screen dreams: Angola’s modernist cinemas and the fading of a utopian vision for Africa
* Adventures of an Afro-Gypsy: How to make hip-hop by way of Africa, America and Transylvania
* Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity
* The Mixtape 28: The sound of independence-era Africa
* Building blocs: How Ghana’s architecture was reimagined with a little help from communist Europe
* Revolution 2.0: Why the Cold War still matters for Burkina Faso’s contemporary artists
* History man: Making sense of race in Russia via the extraordinary life of Pushkin's black forebear
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/5324/red-africa-special-report
CONTENTS
Red Africa: Exploring the legacy of international socialist relations with Africa in art, film, architecture and music.
* Red Africa: Introduction
* Journey to the sun: True-life photos from Africa's almost-real first space mission
* Waiting for Tito: Unofficial scenes from a presidential tour of Africa
* The Pyongyang connection: North Korea's strange and surprisingly effective charm offensive in Africa
* Art, image, ideology: The history of Soviet relations with Africa, as told in pictures
* Screen dreams: Angola’s modernist cinemas and the fading of a utopian vision for Africa
* Adventures of an Afro-Gypsy: How to make hip-hop by way of Africa, America and Transylvania
* Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity
* The Mixtape 28: The sound of independence-era Africa
* Building blocs: How Ghana’s architecture was reimagined with a little help from communist Europe
* Revolution 2.0: Why the Cold War still matters for Burkina Faso’s contemporary artists
* History man: Making sense of race in Russia via the extraordinary life of Pushkin's black forebear