Scarlet Lion
The American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Glenna Gordon, talks on five photographers who influenced her work.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
"You no longer need your calculators to go for lunch in Harare"
As 42 opposition activists were facing treason charges in Zimbabwe for watching video footage of the
'Moore Street'
http://vimeo.com/10523895 "Moore Street" is a single tracking shot filmed on Dublin's famous Moore Street with members
Viva Amilcar Cabral
Paris-based rap group MC Malcriado–captures Cabral’s appeal to the new generation.
'Tales from the Sahel'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qov8Fng3-hA This coming Friday Maal and British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah will begin their UK tour of
Sahara Reporters
Last December I met the impressive Omoyele Sowore, founder of Nigerian online news site, Sahara Reporters.
'Vote for Umblerra'
Probably to deal with the stresses associated with next month general elections scheduled for next month--there's
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvuCCUkCRRo The video for Dutch singer Ntjam Rosie's song "In Need" featured in the latest episode
'The Black Image In An Era Of Globalization'
My department at The New School is co-hosting a two-day conference on "Re-Mixed and Re-Mastered: Defining
There shall be satire for all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjhoTvo5lM Recently Al Jazeera English's media review show, Listening Post, did a breathless profile of South
Google Mandela
You know what Nelson Mandela was trying to calculate in the image embedded above, right? While
The History of 'South African' Cinema
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXuqzqFG8o The Johannesburg filmmaker Cedric Sundstrom has been working on a documentary film on the history
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpgVXEBPSA The video for Gil Scott Heron and Jamie X's "I'll Take Care of U," from
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.
Tidal Waves Goes South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9kJbnoPtI Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money--what else do they do?--gets our
The Beautiful Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZMjHzWXQc Correction: You don't have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English
'Africa's First World Cup' Revisited
We're allowed to talk about the 2010 World Cup until 2014. Later today our man, historian
Street Photographers in Brazzaville
By Lebon Ziavoula, a member of Congo-Brazzaville photographers collective, Generation Elili. Via Afrique in Visu.
The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo’s whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsowLHE6f0Y We've plugged Fredy Massamba before. 'Ntoto' is taken from his album Ethnophony.