Music Break. Booker T. Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIB6g9uay2U Booker T. Jones on the keyboard with Jim James (of My Morning Jacket fame) singing
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
“I don’t go for third terms”
By Elliot Ross Kinnah Phiri is a hero of Malawian football. As a player, he was
Uganda’s Guantánamo
If you’re accused of ‘terrorism’ in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.
Photography. Nana Kofi Acquah
Ghana. Here.
Occupy Africa
http://youtu.be/FnCV2tlsDqU How do Africans--ground zero for resource extraction by the world's 1%--feel about the now global
Viva Kinshasa
One of the most exciting films to come out of the continent recently is the Congolese
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition
5 for le weekend. "Propaganda" one of a series of songs/videos made by The King's Will --one
Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian philosopher, talks about coming out as gay.
Music Break. X Plastaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzUH_Hdm-iQ Nice work by Tanzanian crew X Plastaz, with some help of Fid Q, Bamba Nazar
The films of Sarah Maldoror
Maldoror on filmmaking: “To make a film means to take a position … I make films so that people—no matter what race or color they are—can understand them.”
Woyzeck on the Highveld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvUK3GJdOHk In case you were too young to attend William Kentridge's original version of the early
Music Break. Alabama Shakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVSUH6_oBY I have a student (born in Texas) who insists he won't travel to or through
Chris Martin’s Brain
Coldplay’s “Paradise” music video is set in South Africa. The video is mostly is an antiquated perception of the country held by many in the West.
'My Africa is in the dark'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07TzARpqxU Malian rapper Mokobe ripped into French perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain’s comments about "hard working blacks" in
Gaddafi’s white African mercenaries
Muammar Gaddafi relied extensively on mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa to secure his rule. It is usually assumed they’re black Africans. It turns out a lot of them come from South Africa. And they’re white.
'The Internationale'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL8_ElpStg The always reliable Billy Bragg live on the streets of Dublin this past weekend.
Eating Staten Island Crow
New Orleans-based historian Thomas J. Adams on Occupy Wall Street: "We are the 99% [the slogan
Political theater
Judith Stein in Dissent: Despite its apparent permanence, OWS is mostly composed of part-time participants, who
The Assault on Patriarchy in Tunisia
Women participated in all parties, and prominently so, including the party of the undecided and the party of those boycotting the election.