The American President's Mother
Reporter Janny Scott in The New York Times, and the author of “A Singular Woman: The
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
When it hits, you feel no pain
Music and politics are often intimate partners in society, whether an artist consciously connects them. What role does music play in the politics of today’s world?
'Nü Revolution'
http://vimeo.com/22607584 Les Nubians have a new album (it's been on sale since yesterday). These are the
Tim Hetherington 1970-2011
The war and conflict photographer Tim Hetherington started his career in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he did not just photograph war.
Madonna chooses Malawi
Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that’s where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?
Tendai Biti at Columbia University
One of the leaders of Zimbabwe’s opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.
His father named him for Duke Ellington
Late jazz musician Duke Ngcukana, has been described as “a trumpet player extraordinaire,” and “a fine person.”
Oliver Hermanus at Cannes
"Skoonheid," the new film by South African director Oliver Hermanus will be screened in the Un
Miss Liberia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUxlzuLe-Nw
Street Party, Johannesburg
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
'Brown Baby'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfO4-PVQwA H/T: Rich Flint
'The Journey'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQs-fPhlSnU New track and video, above, for "O Caminho" (The Journey) by London-based rappers Mohammed Yahya
In The Name of Malawi
Indeed.
'Write on Africa'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztZFt-iExE&feature=player_embedded#at=159 Since we are on a roll with Woodstock, Cape Town, here's a profile of graffiti
The Coloureds Comics
We sent 5 questions to South African comic (or graphic) artists Nathan and Andre Trantraal, known collectively as the Trantraal Brothers.
'Insurrection'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled
We are all Andries Tatane
We shouldn’t be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.
Billy Bang
Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
Tunde Olaniran
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10046418 w=500&h=281] Tunde Olaniran is hip hop. Tunde Olaniran is the son of an American mother