Africa’s first trans music star
The popular Kudurista, Titica, is one of the the top stars of this growing Angolan dance music form.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The Road Down to ‘Africa’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvzZ4yShtog I never understood why E-Type's 2002 smash hit 'Africa' didn't really catch on outside Sweden.
If Africa really is a country …
One of our readers took our title literally.
Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.
The talented Tajdin sisters
They’re making a film about “a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black.”
Tinariwen speaks on the coup in Mali
Tuareg musicians Tinariwen, on tour in Europe these days, spent some time in Belgium this weekend.
Cheikh Amadou Bamba Day
For over two decades, West African Muslims from the Murid Sufi Brotherhood come together at the
The Hissène Habré “political and legal soap opera”
In recent weeks media coverage of African criminals and their victims have been dominated by capture
The new type of Senegalese
One of the key groups that engineered the ousting of Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade – he wanted to change the constitution to stay in power – was a youthful grassroots social movement group founded by a collective of rappers.
The Sudanese pioneer of African cinema
In 1969, Gadalla Gubara and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Timité Bassori and Mustapha Alassane came up with an idea: FESPACO.
Brand Kuduro
How a music genre is selling Angola’s oil boom.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°5
One of my favorite MCs / hip hop producers, Damu the Fudgemunk. I always check for
French Tropicalism
When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.
Music Break. Rabbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMHfmP_Mig Kenyan artist Rabbit is working hard to get the word out about his new album
Mali’s Democracy–Down but not out
Is the adoption of a new constitution by Mali’s military regime a starting point for getting the soldiers back under civilian rule? Let’s game this out a little bit.
Cabinda is a Conflict Zone
Think tanks love to paint maps, often accompanied by short descriptions of the different crises a
My favorite photographs N°2: Scott Williams
South African photographer Scott Williams is the second guest in our new weekly series. He has,
Found Objects N°21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQb5qJRy0QY German singer-songwriter Joy Denalane (born to a South African father who's a cousin of Hugh
Nothing To Lose? The Art of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
The artist recognized early on that his sexuality constituted an obstacle between himself and his Nigerian background.
Okonjo-Wahala
Nigeria’s very unpopular finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose last name in local slang is made to sound like trouble, wants to be World Bank President. She’s the “African Renaissance” candidate. What do Nigerians make of it all?