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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

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.

Lions in the rain

The 2025 AFCON final between Senegal and Morocco was a dramatic spectacle that tested the limits of the match and the crowd, until a defining moment held everything together.