It’s a mixed bag this week. Kenyan artist Ato Malinda created a video for one of the tracks of last year’s BLNRB album (music is by the Teichmann Brothers, vocals are by Alai K):

Also from Kenya comes ‘Radio Love’ by J’Mani, Collo and Lyra Aoko. (Only including this because of the “jabulani swagger” line.)

French-Malian rapper Mokobe shared a new video for ‘Boombadeing’:

More hip hop from Raashan Ahmad (who seems to be spending a lot of time in Europe lately), Rita J and Moe Pope:

And to slow it down, Y’akoto’s got a new video out too. We’re still waiting for that debut album of hers:

Further Reading

Goodbye, Piassa

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.