Moses Serubiri, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/mosesserubiri/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:47:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Moses Serubiri, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/mosesserubiri/ 32 32 67616479 The rebellious spirit of Chale Wote https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/rebellious-spirit-chale-wote/ https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/rebellious-spirit-chale-wote/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:47:38 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//lifestyle/?p=15966 The 2016 Chale Wote Street Art Festival procession that ran through John Evans Atta Mills High Street in James Town, Accra, on 20 and 21 August was a mix of carnival and parade.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/rebellious-spirit-chale-wote/feed/ 0 15966 The therapeutic relief of bad-guy movies https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/therapeutic-relief-bad-guy-movies/ https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/therapeutic-relief-bad-guy-movies/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//lifestyle/?p=10167 Cinema-going is often called escapism. Though hardly anyone who has made this claim is clear about why cinema-going is called a surreal or fantastical experience divergent from any other life experience. When Slavoj Zizek says, "cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire", he implies that cinema-goers are not only perverts, but also points to a more psychological sphere of the cinematic experience. If cinema is a kind of desire machine, how does one reconcile this fantastical experience with its violent malcontents?

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