Monday, March 4th, 2013
Apart from seeing our logo superimposed on a building in downtown Johannesburg, this is a good way to celebrate AIAC TV’s return to Youtube. We (well Dylan Valley) attended STR.CRD in Johannesburg last year. STR.CRD is South Africa’s leading (and maybe only) street culture festival and expo. Dylan sat down with Kenyan “geek afro pop”
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
Kenyans vote today (in some places voting have already started). And somehow, as in any election in any African country, the cliches are not far behind. “Will Kenya fall into mayhem after the results of the general...
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Kenya had its first ever televised presidential debate on Monday night. Like many others I was watching the livestream online and Tweeting while at it. I have included some of my real time tweets in this post...
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
The public persona (and the politics) of Bob Marley, whose birthday it is today,* was heavily informed by his relationship with Africa (both symbolically and in a real sense). A good place to see that play out...
Monday, February 4th, 2013
It interesting that the title of the video (embedded below)–shot recently by filmmaker Cary Fukunaga and commissioned by fashion brand Maiyet*–is “Sleepwalking in the Rift.” Not just alluding to dreaming, but also, because we are in the realm...
Monday, January 14th, 2013
Levi-Strauss writes of a Native American people for whom every dream has a hidden sexual meaning, except explicitly sexual dreams, for which it is imperative that non-sexual interpretations be found. I am reaching for an Oscar Wilde...
The loneliness of the Kenyan long d...
23 May 2012 at 3:00 am
Bok van Blerk’s Darkest Africa
10 May 2010 at 7:04 pm
Music Break
2 Apr 2011 at 5:00 pm
Music for Africa
7 Sep 2010 at 9:00 am
African jokes
29 Feb 2012 at 9:00 am
A Room Adrift in London
22 Jun 2012 at 10:00 am
Mandela and the ANC
22 Jan 2012 at 3:00 pm
Mali’s coup — ‘Politics is bad’
27 Mar 2012 at 12:00 am
Ranking the chattering classes
26 Jan 2012 at 9:00 am
