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Weekend Music Break 46

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Weekend Music Break 46

By
Tom Devriendt

Electrique DJs, Fena Gitu and Jaaz Odongo have the perfect Summer tune for you. Technically, we’ll have to call it “Kenyan” house music:

Another great video by director Nicky Campos, this time for South Africans Cassper Nyovest and OkMalumkoolKat:

“9 quatrains to paint a reality,” Enyam Scandalocks calls it. The reality he describes is Lomé’s. Koreg on drums, Elias Damawu on trumpet:

Australian Summer looks in Remi Kolawole’s “Sangria” (via pop Radio Afro Australia):

Noah Kin — remember him — from Finland:

I loved the short profile on Congolese artists Jupiter & Okwess International the BBC did a while ago:

Kitu Sewer and Frank ‘Mteule’ analyze the state of the Kenyan nation in “Wanasiasa”…

London based duo Native Sun went to Mexico:

Old Money’s mind is in Mexico too, it seems. From the Dutty Artz stable:

And everybody has seen or heard P-Square’s “Personally” by now, yes?

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.

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.