Africa Is a Country

Music and Politics

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Music and Politics

By
Sean Jacobs

If you have nothing to do tonight and are in New York City, head down to The New School where Boima Tucker and I are hosting musicians Brian Jackson and Masauko Chipembere as well as writers Carolina Gonzalez, Eddie Stats Houston and Wills Glasspiegel for “A Conversation on Music and Politics.”

And this panel comes with an after party. Starting at 10pm Eddie Stats and Boima will be DJing at Cayenne Lounge on West Houston. The party also doubles as a kind of unofficial Sierra Leone 50th Independence party.

Here are the details.

Further Reading

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.