Music Break. Raashan Ahmad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkNN2QC7nY This video for Raashan Ahmad left me wondering why I have never taken the train
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
On Brand Nigeria
A quick read of comments to recent posts defending gay rights, point to how deep-seated and widespread homophobia is in Nigeria.
Viral Culture: The 2-year old rapper
http://youtu.be/an_STKm-524 By midday today almost 120,000 people had viewed the video of 2-year old Khaliyl Iloyi,
Car Commercials and Primitive Peoples
http://vimeo.com/33161098 It could have been just another dull TV ad featuring an Inca boy, Maori warriors,
Cyberpunk Thriller
Zoo City is set in an alternate Johannesburg, where criminals or those who have serious moral failings, get landed with an animal familiar as a permanent attachment.
No one wants to talk about “the disease”
“Life Above All” has an unbelievable plot and heavy-handed social commentary, but Khomotso Manyaka’s excellent performance and a strong supporting cast redeem it.
Music Break. Michael Kiwanuka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujCOokecXM Brit-Ugandan singer Michael Kiwanuka (featured here before), who sounds like James Taylor, performs two of
Beginning Workout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMAmTuVVUX0 Talking about running: some ad people can make any city look good.
Translating Angola
Why are certain kinds of war stories embraced by critics and go on to find an international audience, while other finely written stories do not?
Something in the water
Africa’s best football players come from West Africa. That’s just facts.
The documentary imaginery
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film "Atletu" (The
Brakpan
Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul's images
All of the party
A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.
Giving the Bizness
This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.
GAL draws Africa
71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work
Found Objects No.20
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Q10g_Mov4&w=600&h=349] From an episode of American comedian Drew Carey's sketch comedy show, "Whose Line is it Anyway."
Massalia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik'n) clearly had
Tumi's Tête Savante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYx3j7ilKn8 We presume you've had Tumi and the Volume's latest album, Pick A Dream, as much
New Clothes
We're tinkering with our design. Stick around for a few days while we're figure this out.
Africa and contemporary art
I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term