Africa Is a Country

Friday Bonus Music Break, N°9

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

Friday Bonus Music Break, N°9

By
Tom Devriendt

Your weekly #musicbreak roundup. Mokobe and Oumou Sangare pray for peace in Mali:

Yasiin Bey, Dead Prez and mikeflo’s Trayvon Martin Tribute:

Finest South African hipsters Dirty Paraffin (H/T Phiona):

Optical Illusion and friends (H/T Mikko) — the video comes with a long by-line, but the track itself will do:

Finland’s Gracias:

Stephen Marley went to Africa and returned with this video:

From Namibia, not your ordinary Nam tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74H6MC2XIbc

Chris Dave (H/T Okayafrica) gives Fela (and Tony Allen) the remix treatment:

http://vimeo.com/41434050

Finally, I was 13 when my taste in music took a drastic turn. R.I.P. MCA.

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.