Revolutions and Dancing
In Egypt earlier this year I was taken by my host to a nightclub in downtown
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
Kyle Shepherd X
The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.
Friday Music Break, N°24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnBiZmiRcM&w=560&h=315 Hello! Boima here, and I'm back helping out with the Friday music break. A Haitian
How to write about children in Africa
Children’s Radio Foundation’s shows are a testament to children’s capacity to be agents for change and to confront critical community issues themselves.
10 films to watch out for, N°10
Here's another random selection of ten films to watch (some of them already doing the rounds,
Stripping back the facade of modern hip-hop to reveal its African roots
Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces breaks down his ‘Pungwe’ mixtape for us.
Things you don’t know about African Women
Starting two years ago, the Thomson Reuters Foundation launched TrustLaw, “a global hub for free legal
#Elections2012
Americans vote today--or more to the point it is the "most important election in the world"
The political fight is wherever people gather
Can young Angolan activists inspired by Angola’s underground rap scene take on a political elite that has ruled for decades?
Hair politics over a church loop
In this Weekend Bonus Music Break, No.23, features musicians as diverse as Ghanaian-Swiss duo, OY, to familier sightings on Africa Is a Country: Spoek Mathambo and Sinkane.
Kehinde Wiley Goes To Paris
The American artist says he wants to tackle Françafrique; to turn it on its head. But in the process, he can’t help repeat stereotypes and artificial divisions.
My favorite things from the last six months
Art South Africa me asked to pick my “Best Six;” basically my “favorite (six) things from the last six months.”
A voice that is incessantly in exile
South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin’s life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.
No one ever finishes anything, we just stop
In Alain Gomis’s “Tey’, ‘Aujourd’hui,” a man lives the last day of his life.
10 films to watch out for, N°9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUC0L778hTI In no particular order, here are another 10 films -- still in production, recently completed
Only Decent White People
A Dutch comedy about an interracial relationship may shape Dutch views of black people there in very negative ways from which they may not recover for a while.
Debating Afrocolombianidad
Colombians and outsiders continue to associate Afro-Colombians largely with dance or music. This is a problem.
Steven Soderbergh in Nollywood
Director Andrew Okoko’s “The Assassin’s Practice” tampers with the tempo of melodrama. It’s also Nollywood’s response to Soderbergh’s “Bubble.”
The politics of translation
The film, “Veejays,” comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.
McDonald’s Baobab Tree
The use of black and African pride by Western fast food chains to appeal to African-Americans in the United States.