Africa Is a Country

Independence day in Zambia

Independence day in Zambia

By
Tom Devriendt

That’s today. Other than Chiluba’s shoes, Sata’s anti-China rants (he’s stopped for now), Alexandra Fuller’s books about her family, the South African soaps on TV and fundamental Christianity, there is dance-hall by Petersen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-C6Cq6EsM

…R&B by Roberto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxw_lbG0_k

A cross-over of those two by MrVezzy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQy4DU8Sok

Hip hop by Zone Fam:

Swagg walk by Princess Mwamba:

And some folk by Clement Maimbolwa:

We can celebrate.

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.