He didn’t have the same longstanding career or notoriety in the Nigerian Afrobeat music scene, but Nigerian singer, pianist, guitarist and composer Segun Bucknor was just as much of a trailblazer in what came to be known as Afrobeat. This is a brief history of his career. My family was […]
Random Photo Journal
Random Photo Journal started a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories and we reached out to frequent travellers around the African continent and asked them to share a series of photos that represent a memory about a place they visited, currently or in the past, attached with a story that led […]
Random Photo Journal started a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories… For the series, we spoke to Christian Sanna a Malagasy-Italian contemporary photographer focusing on personal and social histories in Madagascar. “Fady Kambana” is a series of family portraits taken in the South-East of Madagascar. This photographic exhibition casts a unique look at […]
Why must you bleed on those pages?Why must you drip tears on paper? Why must you pour your heart out on every page? Often, you may wonder, why must you speak of suffering, pain, taboo, and shame to gain recognition. Do we love heartbreaks more than trust, unrequited love more […]
Random Photo Journal started a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories… For the series, we spoke to Sandy Van Den Brink about her last trip to Ghana which she documented on film. Developing film can take weeks. The anticipation that builds up between the time in which the photos are made and […]
Few days after our first encounter I was summoned into her office. She had previously given me a copy of “Courtesy for Boys & Girls” with the instruction that I read and memorize it. I was ready for her. I don’t remember a single thing from that book today but […]
Mornings in Selemku begin with the discovery and lynching of another boy-girl. Their bodies are dragged out on the street, scrapping against the coarse tar. Through the sheathed glass of my room’s window, I see the stern faces of the men who tie up the boy-girls and wound old tyres […]
Things turned out alright. Good, not great. I’m doing much better than my Physics teacher said I would, which is not surprising considering she was a bitter ugly woman who had bleached see-through ankles and blue veins. “Gbenga, you’ll study a useless couwse at a college of education and no […]
Random Photo Journal started a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories… For the series, we spoke to Richard Eshun, a Ghanaian Photojournalist about his everyday documentations of the living conditions around him. Please start off with an introduction about yourself? “Thanks for having me. I am Richard […]
So much beauty and inspiration in Africa that many people take for granted or may never get to see. But so many things stun me about Africa every day – a continent blessed and filled with beauty, resources and great people. For me, travelling alone meant that I get to […]