Sending South African miners home to die
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
The Mbalax President
The legendary Senegalese singer is running for president. Not everyone takes him seriously.
Young warriors of light
What is with the increasing use of sci-fi and horror elements in fairly recent music videos and films by African artists.
#OccupyNigeria
Most Nigerians don’t trust their government and overpaid public representatives with taxpayers’ money. So, they rose up.
An acute deficiency in generosity
Some journalism and “analysis” about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.
Pushing African music into the future
The Austria-based Ghanian singer, Anbuley, shows a willingness to jump on unconventional beats.
Africa’s oldest liberation movement is 100 years old
Does South Africa’s ruling ANC still fight for the same values it championed 100 years ago?
10 West African Club Tracks
I'm a DJ. So it's only right I give you ten songs that filled up my
The Hall of Shame
We couldn’t resist including a post with some of the lowlights of 2011.
10 African Albums of the Year, 2011
If people still bought full albums, we would suggest them buying these 10 from 2011 for their friends. Like we will.
The Year of the Woman
2011 was the year of pro-democracy movements and they were largely pushed and pulled by women.
The Year of Frantz Fanon
What gives Fanon’s thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.
The Top 10 African films of 2011
2011 was a good year for African cinema. In various cinema seats and at home, I’ve
Health care for all
The health news – with major implications for Africans living on the continent – that made the headlines in 2011.
10 photographers to watch in 2012
As part of a series of year-end posts--we're taking a break from Friday, December 23, till January 5, 2012, we're hoping to post 10 "Lists of 10" this week. (We're trying to be cool by calling it "10x10"). So two lists per day. Orlando Reade, who blogs for us from London, starts us of with his list of 10 photographers to watch in 2012. He's picked five African artists and five Europeans who have been working in Africa.
The love for our mothers
The series, Paris Is a Continent, is on number 6. Songs about our moms and break-up songs sung by men that women will like, among others.
R.I.P. Cesária Évora
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yffEiWHIoZI&w=600&h=349] This morning, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora passed away in Mandelo, São Vicente, the island
Dances with Samburu
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
Ploughing through the blog's archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for