Seven plus minutes of your life you’ll never get back.

Stella Mwangi with “Haba Haba,”Norway’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Contest coming in May.

Then there’s Costa Theodorou aka Stony Boy, “a Swazi hip hop artist who moved to Cyprus where he is signed under Badness records … currently performing underground all over London.”


Further Reading

Writing while black

Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ raised questions about Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives, but the film adaptation leaves little room to explore these tensions.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.