Africa Is a Country

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0

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

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0

By
Sean Jacobs

Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe.  In this hilarious video he makes proper use of a beat made famous by 50 Cent:

Belgian hipsters: Magic Mirror’s “Show man”:

Cities Aviv’s “Araw.” The guest rapper is Royal T. Yeh, they’re hipsters too.

What’s it with Nigerians and derivative R&B? This is 2Face, basically the national face of the genre. (I suppose there are rewards: you have to endure American TV chat show hosts.)

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Finally, if you still don’t know what’s Azonto about:

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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.