<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>55 African countries @ bloggingburt.blog-city.com</title><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/</link><description>(55 African countries) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 bloggingburt.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 10:36:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>55 African countries @ bloggingburt.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Great, great cooking book and TV show from S. Tomé</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/great_great_cooking_book_and_tv_show_from_s_tom.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/great_great_cooking_book_and_tv_show_from_s_tom.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=great%5Fgreat%5Fcooking%5Fbook%5Fand%5Ftv%5Fshow%5Ffrom%5Fs%5Ftom</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem with translations is that while books haven't been translated to the English language they are not really out there but remain limited to a close circuit of fans. Such is the case of the book "Na Roça com os Tachos", a co]]></description><category>sao tome</category><category>joao carlos silva</category><category>africa</category></item><item><title>Art of Africa</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/art_of_africa.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/art_of_africa.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=art%5Fof%5Fafrica</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just found it and I can't help but writing about it: the article &quot;Art of Africa&quot; published by the Guardian. Here's a &quot;sample&quot;:
Africa has created some of the greatest art that ever existed, and the brilliance of it has been kno]]></description><category>picasso</category><category>africa</category><category>art</category></item><item><title>Our collection of Rwandan Art</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/our_collection_of_rwandan_art.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/our_collection_of_rwandan_art.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=our%5Fcollection%5Fof%5Frwandan%5Fart</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Still working on the All 55 African countries project and having watched Hotel Rwanda recently and at last, I have come up with a number of links for Rwanda but I could not find one Rwandan artist that I could chose to represent Rwanda in my project.]]></description><category>rwanda</category><category>don cheadle</category><category>michal ronnen safdie</category><category>genocide</category><category>africa</category></item><item><title>Goxoxol in Mauritania</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/goxoxol_in_mauritania.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/goxoxol_in_mauritania.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goxoxol%5Fin%5Fmauritania</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Continuing my All 55 African countries project, I came to another stand-still: Mauritania. What happened to Mauritainian artists? I couldn't find any, apart from 2 pop singers. Mauritania is mostly desert, more than 90%, it is also an Islamic country]]></description><category>goxoxol</category><category>mauritania</category></item><item><title>Art from Liberia (II)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/art_from_liberia_ii.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/art_from_liberia_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=art%5Ffrom%5Fliberia%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sound of the night by Leslie LumehI have to begin by saying that I am so, so flattered that Elizabeth Blunt actually read my blog. Thank you and thank you also for your comment:&quot;Don't despair. Liberia has at least one full time, professional art]]></description><category>liberia</category><category>elizabeth blunt</category><category>art</category><category>leslie lumeh</category></item><item><title>António Macieira, an artist from Angola</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/antonio_macieira_an_artist_from_angola.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/antonio_macieira_an_artist_from_angola.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=antonio%5Fmacieira%5Fan%5Fartist%5Ffrom%5Fangola</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These are Peace Machetes (2003) by António Macieira, an artist born in and living in Angola. António has no formal art education, he is also a journalist and a writer. He has been working on painting and sculpture since 1998 with great success. I c]]></description><category>angola</category><category>antonio macieira</category></item><item><title>Asimba Bathy from the Democratic Republic of Congo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/democratic_republic_of_congo.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/democratic_republic_of_congo.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=democratic%5Frepublic%5Fof%5Fcongo</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[we're sorry but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region. 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South Africa is an amazing country with thousands of artist of all]]></description><category>south africa</category><category>speelman mahlangu</category></item><item><title>Swazi Whales</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/swazi_whales.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/swazi_whales.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=swazi%5Fwhales</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Swaziland is a strange country. Perched between big South Africa and neighboring Mozambique, Swaziland is a small country still ruled by a king (makes you think of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America). 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A story of his life ha]]></description></item><item><title>Somalia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/somalia.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/somalia.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=somalia</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Like many others, I'm sure, I know Somalia from the movie Black Hawk Down. I don't really know much before that or after that, but the truth is that 12 years have passed since Black Hawk Down and Somalia today is not much different that what it was b]]></description></item><item><title>Divine Choreography by Djihane Boughaba</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/divine_choreography_by_djihane_boughaba.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/divine_choreography_by_djihane_boughaba.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=divine%5Fchoreography%5Fby%5Fdjihane%5Fboughaba</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As the representative of Algeria in my project All 55 African countries, I absolutely had to pick Djihane Boughaba. Born in 1966, her life story is not an ordinary one. Djihane studied medicine and obtained her general practicioner diploma in Algeria]]></description></item><item><title>Nezó, multifaceted artist from S. Tomé</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/nez_multifaceted_artist_from_s_tom.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/nez_multifaceted_artist_from_s_tom.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nez%5Fmultifaceted%5Fartist%5Ffrom%5Fs%5Ftom</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A beautiful painting from João Carlos Nezó, the artist I chose to represent S. Tome and Principe in the All 55 African Countries project. S. Tomé and Principe are two exotic islands in the Atlantic Ocean populated by 180.000 people. Their paradise]]></description></item><item><title>Nawal, the voice of Comoros</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/nawal_the_voice_of_comoros.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/nawal_the_voice_of_comoros.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nawal%5Fthe%5Fvoice%5Fof%5Fcomoros</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nawal is the voice of Comoros in her own words. I´m back to the African countries art project. The country I chose this time was Comoros, 3 little islands in the Indian Sea off Mozambique and a former French colony. The population is about 600.000 a]]></description></item><item><title>Jellel Gasteli, a photographer from Tunisia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/jellel_gasteli_a_photographer_from_tunisia.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/jellel_gasteli_a_photographer_from_tunisia.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jellel%5Fgasteli%5Fa%5Fphotographer%5Ffrom%5Ftunisia</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Returning to my African art quest, I came upon a country where artists are easy to find, the difficulty lies in choosing one of them to post in my 55 African Countries.I ended up choosing Jellel Gasteli, a Tunisian photographer that lives and works i]]></description></item><item><title>Papisco Kudzi, from Togo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/papisco_kudzi_from_togo.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/papisco_kudzi_from_togo.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=papisco%5Fkudzi%5Ffrom%5Ftogo</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To represent Togo in my gallery of 55 African nations, I have chosen Papisco Kudzi. Born in 1974 in Togo, he has no formal education althought the list of exhibitions and prizes is extensive and revealling. In 1998 he receives a UNESCO grant and atte]]></description></item><item><title>Burundi Drummers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/burundi_drummers.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/burundi_drummers.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=burundi%5Fdrummers</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[African ArtCan art thrive when everything else is dying? The answer is of course no. I have decided to start with Burundi because I had hardly ever heard of that country. What I found out is frigthening.Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the]]></description></item><item><title>All 55 African countries</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/all_55_african_countries.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/all_55_african_countries.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=all%5F55%5Fafrican%5Fcountries</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I bring a new artist to my blog. I try to choose young people that are either beginning or are not very well known. Visibility never hurt anybody and it gives me a chance to know more people.  After posting an entry of a Burme]]></description><category>africa</category><category>art</category></item></channel></rss>