Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsowLHE6f0Y We've plugged Fredy Massamba before. 'Ntoto' is taken from his album Ethnophony.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
'Shaka Zulu'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxZvvETnPE Not sure what to make of the video. The video was filmed "in Africa." Kage
Save the Museum (in Uganda)
Just about this time last year, Uganda lost a priceless part of its cultural heritage when
Music Break
Alsarah & The Nubatones came together out of a collective love for Nubian music and a
File Under No Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTtUqxklzs Another of those pending posts. The video for "Flying High" for the British rapper Chipmunk
'Nigeria's first fashion magazine'
http://vimeo.com/20490998 Part promotion, part video profile of "Mania," a new Nigerian magazine billed as a first
'America as … point of reference'
The artist Dawn Okoro (take the link to her blog) on her most recent work: I've
March 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg18qsycBk It's late already, but it is still March 6: Ghana Independence Day. Dutch rapper Kno'Ledge
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7boL1EkW7M Mos Def, "Umi Says," Live at the Austin City Limits Festival 2009.
When Richard Pryor dressed up as “a tribal bushman”
This was for the cover art of one of his comedy albums: “The cover looked totally real, like a cover of National Geographic.”
Dakar Modern
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbSVS0AmtA] I've been wanting to post for a while now about the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Primarily
John Akomfrah is Brilliant
British filmmaker John Akonfrah will be artist-in-residence this Spring at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.
'Real African Music'
Thanks to HavePlentyMusic I saw that big time house producers experimenting with Kuduro for a few
Teju Cole takes the City
Our man Teju Cole's novel "Open City," set in post-9/11 New York City, is doing better
Konfab's Lost Tapes
Pioneer Unit's on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection
The Women of Tahrir
http://vimeo.com/20554580 Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read
The American Right’s problem with Kenya
How did Kenya and Kenyans get their reputations in US politics, particularly among U.S.. rightwingers, as anti-American?
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his
‘The Worst Place To Be Gay’
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Libya’s Race Problem
Colonel Gaddafi’s alleged use of “black mercenaries,” has put the question of race in Libya’s revolution front and center.