http://youtu.be/wnGy2Dtr3MQ

Blitz the Ambassador, a staple on AIAC, has been releasing these videos (titled “Koshka Sessions”) where he eschews his big band and accompanied by only a percussion instrument delivers raps like this one “Colonial Mentality.” This is number 3, the latest, in the series.

Here are links to sessions one and two.

Further Reading

Davido’s jacket

Davido’s appearance at ‘Amapiano’s biggest concert’ turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.

Empty riddles

Drawing on his forced migration from Rwanda, Serge Alain Nitegeka reflects on the forms, fragments, and unsettled histories behind his latest exhibition in Johannesburg.