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Friday Music Bonus Edition

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Friday Music Bonus Edition

By
Tom Devriendt

Niagass comments on Senegal’s president Wade’s running for another term:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqsCXR_l5o

We’ve been listening to Robert Glasper’s new album since it came out and we think you should too. He played ‘Always Shine’ with Lupe Fiasco and Bilal on Letterman this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXKbUCC-bU

Elom 20ce channeling Thomas Sankara and Frantz Fanon in ‘L’orage approche’:

Michael Kiwanuka (again) with an acoustic version of ‘Home Again’:‬

And Wilow Amsgood (he calls himself “Brazzaïrois”) with Entek and Grems: ‘Ô Ma Femme (homme à femme)’:

Further Reading

Visiting Ngara

A redevelopment project in Nairobi’s Ngara district promises revival—but raises deeper questions about capital, memory, and who has the right to shape the city.

Gen Z’s electoral dilemma

Long dismissed as apathetic, Kenya’s youth forced a rupture in 2024. As the 2027 election approaches, their challenge is turning digital rebellion and street protest into political power.

A world reimagined in Black

By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.

Securing Nigeria

Nigeria’s insecurity cannot be solved by foreign airstrikes or a failing state, but by rebuilding democratic, community-rooted systems of collective self-defense.

Empire’s middlemen

From Portuguese Goa to colonial Kampala, Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book shows how India became an instrument of empire, and a scapegoat in its aftermath.

À qui s’adresse la CAN ?

Entre le coût du transport aérien, les régimes de visas, la culture télévisuelle et l’exclusion de classe, le problème de l’affluence à la CAN est structurel — et non le signe d’un manque de passion des supporters.