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Reimagining a new future

Mail Guardian South Africa 19 Jun 2022
To Peet Pienaar, the co-founder and creative director of African surf brand Mami Wata, the pandemic has been a major turning point, a sentiment shared by most ... Mami Wata, which promotes “the power of African surf”, is a community of the global surfing world that is commonly overlooked.
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‘Goddesses, I yield to you!’ Marina Warner on the volcanic power of witches, she-devils and divinities

The Observer 16 May 2022
The British Museum is filled with objects that were once sacred to one culture or another. Until recently, the move into a museum setting disenchanted such artefacts ... But this is changing ... This divinity, ancient and obscure, still possessed spiritual meaning for them ... Feminine Power ... Water goddesses … a Mami Wata headpiece from early 1900s Nigeria ... .
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‘I was consumed with anger’: Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron’s brilliant, badly wronged partner

The Observer 27 Apr 2022
Upon finishing, Jackson states ... Think about it. Gil could inhabit the spirit of a song ... Photograph ... The album is Jackson’s classic warm jazz-funk, with the track Mami Wata employing an Afrobeat rhythm, while Path to Macondo/Those Kind of Blues meditates on African American music’s origins, akin to what he and Scott-Heron recorded during their heyday ... .
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African horror movie wins at Sundance festival

Mail Guardian South Africa 08 Apr 2022
Aisha hopes to save up enough money to bring her son over to the US ... For me it is.”. Nanny’s Aisha is haunted by visions of Mami Wata and Anansi the Spider, two prominent figures in West African folklore. The mermaid-like siren, Mami Wata, is a complex figure that honours the essential and terrifying power of water bodies ... She says ...
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South African Surf Brand Mami Wata Pops Up in Venice

The Hollywood Reporter 02 Apr 2022
In their passionate attempt to expand what surf culture looks like globally, the Mami Wata team has also produced a transportive short film, shot by Giant Film and art directed by Mami Wata co-founder Peet Pienaar in Senegal during Masekela’s most recent surf trip on the continent.
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African surf culture explored at new exhibit launch in San Clemente surf museum

Press Telegram 19 Mar 2022
In 2017, he met the founders of clothing company Mami Wata, a small start-up in Cape Town, South Africa, that was aiming to create the first African-driven, global surf lifestyle brand ... But Mami Wata is different, he said, with the brand’s founder, Nick Dutton, showcasing ...
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Celebrating 'divine and demonic' women! British Museum's first exhibition on female spiritual beings will explore ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2022
Mami Wata is recognised as a powerful a water spirit and is usually represented as a snake charmer or a mermaid. ... Mami Wata is recognised as a powerful a water spirit and is usually represented as a snake charmer or a mermaid ... a symbol inscribed with the identity Mami Wata.
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In pictures: International Women’s Day around the world

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Mar 2022
A woman, forced to leave Kyiv after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, heads to safety with her dog. EMIN SANSAR/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES ... ALEXA PENA/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES. Sponsored ... TCHANDROU NITANGA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ... British Museum staff look at a headpiece from Nigeria featuring the Mami Wata water spirit, which is usually depicted as female ... .
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Black History and Culture (VOA Connect Ep 213)

Voa News 11 Feb 2022
VOACONNECT. EPISODE # 213. AIR DATE. 02 11 2022. TRANSCRIPT. OPEN ((VO/NAT/SOT)). ((Banner)). The Wealth Gap. ((SOT)). ((Andre Perry. Scholar/Author, The Brookings Institution)). People see twice as much crime than there actually is in Black communities ... ((Animation Transition)) ... All right, this piece is called Mami Wata. Mami Wata is a goddess of the sea.
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New Orleans art exhibition tackles issues that affect the city

Sandhills Express 05 Feb 2022
Watch Video. Statue honoring African diaspora replaces Confederate monument at New Orleans art exhibition. In New Orleans, the spot where a statue of Robert E. Lee once stood is now home to a depiction of an African deity ... The placement of Leigh’s West African deity, Mami Wata, is controversial ... Lee was removed.
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‘Nanny’: Film Review | Sundance 2022

The Hollywood Reporter 27 Jan 2022
Related Stories ... Nanny ... Two figures from West African folklore, the trickster Anansi and the water spirit Mami Wata, take over her mind, slowly eroding her sanity ... Mami Wata is much more direct, pulling Aisha underwater and making her feel as if she’s drowning ... Mami Wata is an especially dazzling image, regal, sensual and foreboding all at once.
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A Simone Leigh Statue Is Replacing a Confederate Monument

New York Observer 25 Jan 2022
Simone Leigh at the New Museum on April 4, 2017 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images ... Leigh’s sculpture Sentinel (Mami Wata), which portrays a feminine body with a spoon for a head and a snake wrapped around it, was just installed in New Orleans in a spot that used to display a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee ... .
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Nanny review – promising domestic worker thriller gets jumbled

The Observer 23 Jan 2022
892 review – John Boyega holds together by-the-book hostage drama. Read more ... The African folk figures of Mami Wata, a seductive yet dangerous water spirit, and the wise trickster spider Anansi factor in as symbols of survival and resistance for oppressed people, and their eerie depictions help Nanny stand out from the genre’s typical fare ... .
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Young adult books round-up – review

The Guardian 11 Jan 2022
In a Russian-inspired fantasy world, Echo makes a pact with a strange talking wolf ... Simi, a young black mermaid, is one of the Mami Wata, duty-bound to gather the souls of those who die at sea ... ....
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Senegal and Morocco win awards of the 1st session of the Cairo Francophone Film Festival

Egypt Independent 18 Dec 2021
The Senegalese film Mami Watta, directed by ... The film won the award for the freshness of cinematic storytelling and the specificity of the place and the characters that appeared in the film through main character, which is related to the ancient African legend “Mami Wata”.

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