Nigerian-Swedish pop star Dr Alban features in this new St. John’s Dance video above. Swedish-Finnish-Gambian (yeh) rapper Adam Tensta is the guy behind the group. (Tensta started with more straightforward rap, but has since found a slightly different sound, as illustrated in this Nollywood-influenced video.) Next, more common Nigerian pop:

Your weekly dose of kuduro courtesy of JD, Nagrelha and Rei Panda:

Jean Grae created this video for ‘Kill Screen’:

A Sauti Sol & Spoek Mathambo collaboration:

Via okayafrica: Octa Push’s ‘Mambowrp’.

A dramatic video for new music by Nëggus (repping for Togo) and Kungobram:

From Grahamstown, South Africa, the Wordsuntame duo:

A down-beat version of the closing song of Terakaft’s new record Kel Tamasheq (from Mali):

And a Nomadic Wax moment with Kisangani (Congo) artist Alesh:

Those Nigeria-Finland-Sweden-Gambia connections? That’s Mikko. We’re back on Monday.

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.