Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Blitz the Ambassador is throwing a block party in Brooklyn this Saturday. Les Nubians are singing, Rimarkable and myself are DJing, and Restless City is screening. MoCADA is the host and co-sponsor.
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Director Dehanza Rogers’s latest short film, “Sweet, Sweet Country” is the winner of the Audience Award at the 2013 Atlanta Film Festival. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as the 20-year old refugee Ndizeye, whose struggles to care...
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
This Saturday I’ll be djing between acts at The Apollo Theater’s Africa Now! Concert. Yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with the Apollo’s director about the different African crowds in New York (last year they had Tiken...
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Blitz the Ambassador, a staple on AIAC, has been releasing these videos (titled “Koshka Sessions”) where he eschews his big band and accompanied by only a percussion instrument delivers raps like this one “Colonial Mentality.” This is...
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Inexplicably absent in this year’s fashionable blogs’ and magazines’ year-end lists are videos by African artists, or those videos recorded somewhere in Africa. I’ve picked ten which I think stood out. South Africans Pieter Hugo and Michael...
The Trumpet King
12 Mar 2010 at 11:51 am
African Audience Data
8 Mar 2010 at 11:00 am
Music Break / Youssoupha
17 Sep 2011 at 4:00 pm
Music Break. King Mensah
10 Feb 2012 at 6:00 pm
Discovery Channel’s Africa
14 Jan 2013 at 9:00 am
The Cartography of Bullshit
18 May 2013 at 4:09 am
Foreign correspondents and false no...
6 Dec 2012 at 10:00 am
Chinua Achebe: A Poet of Global Enc...
5 Apr 2013 at 1:00 am
Why does South African history cont...
29 Nov 2012 at 9:30 am
