Nigerian Independence
Okay we're a day late. (It's Sean's fault.) Happy Indpendence Day Nigeria. Your music industry is
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Getting soft bellies
Our latest Weekend Special includes a lot of football (soccer) and that the United States is “the most Africanized nation in the Western world.”
Music Break / MED and Talib Kweli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEvNu_rdhXk The period video for the recently released "Classic" by MED, featuring Talib Kweli.
Political R&B
“Before they lay your body down / you got to change the world before you six feet under the ground.”
The definition of hip-co
Takun J, the leading proponent of the Liberian music genre, breaks down its essence for a
Suing Tintin
It’s been a long time coming. The case that was opened in 2007 by Bienvenu Mbutu
This is Freedom: The Mandela Reality TV Show
Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s descendants fought apartheid for the right to make a reality TV show and South Africans fought for the right see it.
The Emperor Needs New Clothes
Equatorial Guinea’s longtime head of state, Teodoro Obiang, wants to buy legitimacy internationally. Will he succeed?
Holland is Kaaps
Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.
Music Break / Kommanda Obbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BVJR2fSR8 It was Core Wreckah who first put us on to Lesotho rapper Kommanda Obbs a
In Praise of Wangari Maathai
Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.
Law and Disorder
“Law and Order,” opened its 13th season with a very transparent plot based on the Dominique Strauss Kahn rape case. It is not very good.
Muslim American Slave
Islam first came to North America with slavery, yet no major studio film has centered on the life of a Muslim American slave. Ibn Said’s remarkable life could be a start.
Outsourcing Protest
You fill out a form on a Dutch NGO’s website and it “gets a bunch of Africans to protest for you.” It is not a joke.
Liberator Magazine
Here. Photo Credit: Cedric Miles.
Music Break / Kern Koppen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FM4XDO39ug You might remember the Dutch band Kern Koppen from last year's collaboration with South African
The "colorful" women of Karamoja
By Dan Moshenberg Somebody call Paul Gauguin. The site of exotic exploration of bare naked, happy
Today I'll eat for Belgium
Yes, some Europeans, specifically Belgians -- who else but "a fine group of web designers, web
Karl Marx Was Right
The mainstream is waking to the prescience of the old man’s ideas.
Music Break / Kastra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6aGKw6dng Video for Douala rapper Kastra. I haven't yet figured out what he means with "I'm