Africa Is a Country

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

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.