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

Leapfrogging literacy?

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.

Repoliticizing a generation

Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.

Drip is temporary

The apparel brand Drip was meant to prove that South Africa’s townships could inspire global style. Instead, it revealed how easily black success stories are consumed and undone by the contradictions of neoliberal aspiration.

Energy for whom?

Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future.