AfricaIs aCountry

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0

By
Sean Jacobs

Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe.  In this hilarious video he makes proper use of a beat made famous by 50 Cent:

Belgian hipsters: Magic Mirror’s “Show man”:

Cities Aviv’s “Araw.” The guest rapper is Royal T. Yeh, they’re hipsters too.

What’s it with Nigerians and derivative R&B? This is 2Face, basically the national face of the genre. (I suppose there are rewards: you have to endure American TV chat show hosts.)

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Finally, if you still don’t know what’s Azonto about:

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In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself.

After Paul Biya

Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion.

Leapfrogging literacy?

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.

Repoliticizing a generation

Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.