Five for the weekend. I haven’t done this in a while. First up Philadelphians Chill Moody (rapper) and Cody Kahmar with the music video for “My Eyes”:

Malfred‘s reggae homage to Tanzanian mothers, “Asante Mama”:

Staying in East Africa, here’s new music from Uganda’s Maurice Kirya:

The Mexican-Ethiopian rapper Gonjasufi‘s video for “The Blame”:

And finally, any week of music breaks I’m involved in won’t be complete without some Nigerian-American pop:

Further Reading

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.

The new antisemitism?

Stripped of its veneer of nuance, Noah Feldman’s essay in ‘Time’ is another attempt to silence opponents of the Israeli state by smearing them as anti-Jewish racists.