Nigerian D’Banj–a combination of outsized showman, confidence, flash, little politics and affecting personality–could be Africa’s first global pop star of the 21st century.
Music Break. 2Face
January 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
The music video for “Raindrops,” the latest by Nigerian pop star 2Face. Btw, what was his stance on #OccupyNigeria? Anybody know?
The New South African Superstar
January 24, 2012 By 9 Comments
Zahara has become the top pop artist in South Africa in a fairly short time but curiously enough, for the media, she has remained something of an enigma because she doesn’t appear to have any obvious unique selling points beside her talent.
Darkest Africa Redux
May 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
You’d be forgiven if you thought the images came from a B-grade Hollywood, straight-to-DVD action flick. Complete with the familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country being saved by a blonde heroine. But this is the latest installment in Afrikaner schmaltz peddled by Bok van Blerk, who a few years […]
