“Africans unite to save Norwegians from dying of frostbite. You too can donate your radiator and spread some warmth”
So it’s rare, very rare, that I do back-to-back blogs. But once in a while, something so delicious and overflowing with blog-worthiness pops up on your radar–and demands a write up. The recipient today is the super-snarky and wonderful video “Africa for Norway.”
The United States of Hoodoo is an upcoming documentary film by Oliver Hardt and Darius James. Originally picked this up from Aker Futuristically Ancient’s blog and was just going to reblog, but wanted to add my few thoughts. The blurb on the documentary’s official website describes it as an exploration “about how African based spirituality has informed America’s popular culture” that “shakes up traditional and stereotypical ways of thinking about race, religion, rationality.” The West and Central African syncretic religions that traveled to the New World via the trans Atlantic slave trade have indeed informed much of American popular speculative culture, but unfortunately in not so commendable ways.
Phenderson Djèlí Clark 