Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl6ZcSJ_KY Tidal Waves (the "hardest working band in South Africa" - they really are) played a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnjer2C6Zn4 African nationalism from an unlikely quarter;  rapper I-20 from Ludacris-owned label, Disturbing Tha Peace. Great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_qL0IXdKQ Old Master Boubacar Traoré (also known as Kar Kar, “the one who dribbles too much”)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Df8yPn_bc&fs=1&hl=en_US] A little Luso Rap infatuation I've been harboring for a while has led me down

Listen here.

Security Guard, World Cup, 2010, Soweto, South Africa. More here.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM4tQ_w__RM] The new video for Nigerian Afrobeat funkster Bantu's tune "I'm Waiting." It's part of the

Good biscuits at the UN social security forum at Cape Town International Convention Center, South Africa.

Journalism in Africa: Who’s Telling Our Story? Friday, February 18, 2011 New York University Puck Building,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmtFX-r-0p8 I have this track (and video) on repeat. The Sway Machinery featuring Malian singer Khaira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9OvmowfpD0 Another one of those videos I was forwarded over the break. It's become something of

If you’re passing through Brussels the next months and you haven’t seen Belgian painter Luc Tuymans’s

No not the guy on the left. The music of DJ MO-LAUDI. Listen here.

[vodpod id=Video.5574372&w=500&h=411&fv=] ...The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of

It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ27b5asx4 Remember Meta and Cornerstones' tune "Somewhere in Africa"? It got a makeover as a remix

Distracted by Cee Lo's chicken suit or Lady Gaga's latest stunt (she hatched from an egg),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LngTUSmaZ5k The second episode of "What's Up Africa," the  Radio Netherlands Worldwide 'creative vlog on African