Sesotho Cipher
Before moving down from Maseru to Cape Town in 2008 and exploring the Cape's hip hop
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Music Break / Gracias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9DFWp32L6g We plugged Kinshasa-born Gracias not too long ago. This is the video for Mon€y, another
Spinning in Gauteng
http://vimeo.com/16724676 Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning
Music Break / Akala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOKgjoxoto There's so much going on in these 8 minutes of rap by Akala, we can
Mandela's heirs
http://vimeo.com/26538549 The documentary "Dear Mandela," about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban,
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town’s Cape Flats.
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
South Africa's first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between
Weekend Special, July 17
http://vimeo.com/24894177 All that stuff we could not blog--we have real jobs--or were too lazy to put
Ken's Song
http://vimeo.com/15422187 Some rural flavor from Hambale, Zambia. Filmed by David Tree. H/T: Adrian Bischoff.
Hillywood
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year's Rwanda Film Festival going down
Music Break / DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger
http://vimeo.com/26301164 We liked the previous recent work by DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger. No surprise then the
Drones in Somalia
The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.
White Wedding
The internets have been rightly outraged at a white couple, "Dave and Chantal," who decided on
'The last photo before leaving'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hef6Roa2z3U Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe
What about the maid?
African women work as domestics over the world. How have they responded to or organized to improve their conditions?
Music Break / Baaba Maal and Duggy Tee
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHTecgV9_M&w=600&h=373] My Brooklyn neighborhood is a center for Pulaar speakers in the United States. The
The Redemption of General Butt-Naked
A film about former Liberian child soldier, Joshua Milton Blahyi, adds to his celebrity and his reputation as a skilled manipulator.
Corner Shops and Arcade Games
In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.
The Mobile Phone Chimera
Two recent articles highlight the fact that the digital divide is very much still with us, and in fact new kinds of divides may be opening up.
The Black Maroons of Colombia
The spontaneous mobilization of Afro-Colombians against mining corporations (backed by the Colombian state) is something to pay attention to.