The Nahmias Cipher Report

2009 Ethiopian & Diaspora music videos featuring artists from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. Check it out!

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 01:46 AM EDT, 18 December 2009 ISRAEL – “The Idan Raichel Project is the self-titled debut album by Idan Raichel. Raichel composed and arranged many of the tracks, performs vocals and plays the keyboard, while collaborating with other vocalists and musicians. Hit singles include Boi (בואי / “Come”), Im Telech [...]

Ellsworth Kelly is a 21st century American artist. The simplicity of the image sums up humanities’ eternal quest for understanding. Perfectly sublime. This artist, like Mark Rothko, who is another favorite, was part of the color field painting and the minimalist school.

Idi Amin’s bloody reign is magnificently captured in the movie “The Last King of Scotland”. Recalled in the memoir is an violent and frightening encounter we had with Idi Amin’s soldiers in the 1970′s while trying to enter Kenya after a 29 day journey through seven countries in Africa.

Mzungus are raping our children, and it is allowed because of poverty and hunger. Sex tourism is a crime against humanity; it irrevocably harms girls, boys and women, and should not be tolerated under any circumstances. I urge everyone who follows this blog to highlight this issue by reposting this video.

Warm wishes for happiness, love and peace on Hanukkah and always.

Cattle for wives. The plight of a daughter when an expat goes rogue.

The sculpture and photographic images that attract most, sing siren songs, and speak to the lonely space in the terrain between body and soul. A space simultaneously inhabited yet vacant, and until now, indescribable.

The strength of Parks’ work, resides in its perspicacity coupled with the power of the stories he tells through his photography. It is the reason why doors typically closed to African-Americans during the pre-Civil Rights era, were opened for him. These skills and talents allowed him to work for some of the most prestigious fashion magazines in America, at a time when most African-American photographers, journalist, and models were barred.

Parks’ association with the Civil Rights Movement, and in particular, the two photos of individuals associated with the Nation of Islam; Ethel Shariff, Daughter of Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X prompted this post.