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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Must Be Something in the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GvkDgP30A Seriously, this is not ironic. UNICEF is bottling Rihanna and other celebrities' tap water and
"The creative street vibes of South Africa"
On Saturday, 26 March at the Swedish CinemAfrica Festival the film directors Teddy Goitom and Benjamin
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_O62AItxTs Not the official video for BLK JKS's Zol!"
Mandela in X-Large
We were hoping it would not come to this: The Nelson Mandela Foundation has launched an
Found Objects, No. 13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwe_xNEUgxA The UK (via Jamaica) toaster, Tapper Zukia's "MPLA" off the album from the same name. Because
This is about Congo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0dfuAWDIQ ABC News on Ben Affleck's "time with the people of Congo" and his "odd couple"
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S7oMLvl2w French-Congolese musician Abd Al Malik's star is rising fast in Francophone Europe. Behind his, say,
The narrative of African women
An exhibit attempts to reframe popular perceptions and the image of African women in the United States.
What’s Kenya got to do with it?
Solange and two other US artists want to solve the problem of access to water in Africa by teaming up with Coco Cola. That sounds like a contradiction.
Poetry Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syTnWDcl-8 Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly
ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
Cameroon is Cameroon
A mix of factors – language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression – prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.
'Mapping Africa'
This is brilliant. The BBC, working with the Royal Geographical Society, has posted an audio slideshow
The Prophet Karl Marx
Few intellectuals have changed the world in such practical ways.
'Political Art'
Negar Azimi, in Frieze Magazine, on what the ascendency of 'political art' means for art's actual
Jonathan Jansen’s Burden
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
Flying Overseas
http://youtu.be/Wd6NxkKCVI8 I am not cool like Theophelius London. I don't wear nice, patterned shirts. Solange Knowles*
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
No One Will Remember The Book Cover
I received my copy of this year's Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love in