Casting Djimon Hounsou
Actor Djimon Hounsou doesn’t take his own advice about the media he makes about Africa.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
World famous in South Africa
Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces – at times on par with some of Bob Dylan’s work – but he was only famous in South Africa
Paris a Continent … the Nike edition
http://vimeo.com/37302066 I like the tone and aesthetic of this commercial. It makes Paris look like parts
Music Break. Khuli Chana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahwth3qxnig The video for South African hip hop head Khuli Chana's 'Tswa Daar' comes with a
Louis Moholo’s Drum
The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.
A visual history of African LGBTQ
A quick review of films showing at two festivals with a focus on gay people: The Out in Africa Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Friday Music Bonus Edition
Our weekly round-up of new (and a little less new) music videos. First, this great video
Out in Africa
Writing gays and lesbians into the political and social history of South Africa – a history from which LGBT people are so often obscured and ignored.
The Afrikaans Film Template
Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they’re exclusively white.
The White Nigerian
The Northern Nigeria repping White Nigerian (isn't he Lebanese Nigerian?), along with JJC, invites us all
How to celebrate International Women’s Day
March 8, 2012. It’s International Women’s Day, and so how to celebrate? Over the weekend, The
Film: “Imagining Emanuel”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVezOglRkWA Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes, film editors at Brooklyn Rail, write about the documentary film
A miserable fraud
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
The University of Gnawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kTJ4LFfVCM The new video for the song "Alf Hilat" by Moroccan lute player and singer Aziz
The official Canadian view of South Africa
The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness
Mike Epps’ got “Africa” jokes
Remember Mikko's post on African Jokes? Comedian Mike Epps, a few days before he threatened his daughter
Tank Girl
Nadine Hammam's work turned out to be “too risky” for Art Dubai. Her new exhibition, Tank
South Africa broke photographer Eve Arnold’s heart
From Financial Times profile of Eve Arnold, the brilliant American photographer who died in January 2012:
The Jazz of Samuel Yirga Mitiku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zATN60yiVyo I was in Dubai recently, working on a documentary, and on the way back to
Shit (some) South Africans say
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_BugBDym4&w=640&h=360] When the ubiquitous "Shit (People) Say" meme was still popular, and after seeing the