The first Afrikaans film at Cannes
Finally a teaser for the film "Skoonheid," by Cape Town director, Oliver Hermanus, is now online.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Crazy Bald Heads
Blackwater mostly recruits from former US soldiers and former soldiers from dictatorships like Apartheid South Africa
Paul Kagame Spins Youtube
Paul Kagame is a skilled media operator. Sending unprepared interviewers his way, is not how to do journalism.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDAuXE2DiM A lot of people dismiss Dominican-American pop singer George Lopez Jr, also known as Twin
Soweto Tee
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When Thelonious Monk first met Dollar Brand
By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP’s as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
What’s So Funny
Tracing the origins and development of newspaper cartooning in South Africa, and its political place.
Oh, Canada
Sean, AIAC’s editor, reflects, in a drive-buy fashion, on Canada’s travel rules and some reasons why Toronto is a great place to visit.
The Belgian Color Bar
The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.
Memoirs about Africa
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor--he's written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe--and blogger, has a
Zim Ngqawana
Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a prominent figure in the second generation of South African jazz musicians, passed away on Monday.
Some Men in South Africa
A 13-year-old South African girl is the latest victim of "corrective rape," in which men rape
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8QYVXqdSmg We've featured Dutch R&B singer, Ntjam Rosie, here before. We had to do it again.
Africa’s media considered
What is the state of the media in Africa? And how is it dealing with perhaps the biggest emerging story continent-wide, the rise of the extractive sector?
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbhplk5rljc With a nod to the 1990s, one of our favorites, DJ Premier, presents "A New
Letter from Tunis
Tunisia, which kickstarted the “Arab Spring,” is in a long pause between longtime dictator Ben Ali’s flight and elections scheduled for July 2011.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88dMUreOLU Based in Pretoria, MsSupa shot and edited the video for her 'Dreams' herself, she tells
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
A sobering representation of the psychic scars that still haunt many Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.
Music Break
http://vimeo.com/22851785 L.A. singer Jimetta Rose (whom you might know from her guest vocals on Shafiq Husayn's
Made in Africa
I'm in the suburbs of Toronto this weekend and I go to bed early nowadays (my