Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Many collaborations and surprise comebacks popped up in our feeds this week. First, this one by Kenyans DNA and Tanzania’s Mr. Nice, who tried his luck in South Africa for a while but now seems to have found his ground again back home:
Saturday, October 27th, 2012
I’m taking cues from Africa is a Country’s contributors this week. First up, Boima dropped by Amsterdam’s African Hip-Hop radio’s studio and delivered this set. One of the tracks featured on there is ‘TOHL’ (above) by Togo-born...
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...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Cape Town-based Driemanskap’s ‘I will make it’ is not new, but the video for the track is. We threw 5 questions to Damian Stephens, founding partner of Pioneer Unit Records, the independent hip hop label to which...
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music faces – how do you reach as wide an audience as possible? But it has additional posers unique to this country...
Soukous for Francophonie (and for K...
12 Oct 2012 at 1:00 am
Democracy in Uganda
12 Apr 2011 at 9:00 am
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
2 Dec 2011 at 4:12 pm
The Indelible Mark of the Mbira
11 Oct 2012 at 12:00 pm
Mandela and the ANC
22 Jan 2012 at 3:00 pm
Malawi’s Twittersphere
18 Sep 2012 at 3:15 am
Julius Malema’s History
6 Mar 2012 at 6:00 am
The other African election, Round 2...
7 May 2012 at 12:00 pm
Chinua Achebe: A Poet of Global Enc...
5 Apr 2013 at 1:00 am
