CONTACT: Call for Photographs Contacting Toronto: We’re in this Together is opening up a dialogue about Toronto in all its facets; allowing us all to make public our experiences of the city. A public installation of Scotiabank CONTACT, *Contacting Toronto: We’re in  This Together* will be presented on the Pattison Onestop network of subway platform screens to an audience of 1.3 million daily commuters. All accepted images will be seen...

Joseph Kony is a household name, thanks to a 30-minute YouTube video raising awareness about his brutal rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Tens of millions have seen the video after US charity, Invisible Children, released the clip online last week. On Tuesday, a charity organisation showed the film to the people who suffered at the hands of the LRA – Ugandans in the north of the country. Al Jazeera’s Malcolm...

“It is clear that the United States of America are intent on re-colonising Africa, directly and militarily, and the ‘Kony 2012′ video is a cleverly produced piece of propaganda to further this aim. Interestingly, when reading about the history of the British Empire, it becomes clear that the language has not changed much in the last few hundred years, and neither has people’s susceptibility to it. The basic...

(RED)Wire’s 2nd edition came with this awesome short – here is the blurb. When Bono edited the Africa issue of Vanity Fair, it included an essay written by Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. Through that, we became aware of another piece he’d written for Granta a number of years ago called “How (Not) to Write About Africa.” Director Jesse Dylan and his company FreeForm worked with Binyavanga and the Beninois...

div align=”center”>PRESS RELEASE Exhibition: Accents/Collaborative Art Exhibition Artists: Alex Jowett, Gilda Monreal (Fiya Bruxa), N’Dri Paul Kouadio, Quentin “Vercetty” Lindsay, Shaniqueki Bartley and Thomas Haskell Dates: February 17th, 2012 to March 16th, 2012. Directors (Samuel J. Zacks Art Gallery, Stong College): Thomas Haskell and Stanislav Guzar Exhibitor: Abubacar Fofana Leon, The Harriet Tubman Institute for...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya. The rap star flew to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of women and children have fled there over the last year to flee a devastating famine that killed tens of thousands of people across Somalia. WFP said the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has committed to provide 1 billion meals...