http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmWi0vn5Y4 Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary.

A graphic novel probably doesn't come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing's City of

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here's Moody in 1989--live with Dizzy

Yan Gross, the Swiss photographer and skateboarder--in an interview with South African journalist, Sean O'Toole, in

[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing "Music Man" on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7eQyasgw0 Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0Vpse9n8w&rel=0 The first weekly episode (posted on Fridays) of 'creative Africa video blog,' WHAT'S UP AFRICA,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1scxpmbWQ NEWSWEEK [magazine]'s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to

We know that the Egyptian dictator has a macabre sense of humor: I am fed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVuqmpO0G2Y Following the release of "Love and Death", Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days.

http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his 'Lost for Words', recorded in Harare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jql4ctFACwY The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCjZ6gThyY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana's "El Juidero," the title track of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the

The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how

http://vimeo.com/15616288 Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.

Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in "The Nation"--that's still worth repeating--on Black

http://www.vimeo.com/15387345 Dutch website profiles Harlem-based singer Somi (of Rwandan and Ugadan descent, raised in downstate Illinois).

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7-T50Lr3A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Salif Keita performs his standard "Folon" live on Dutch TV in March 2010.

Overheard: "At least he will introduce the Egyptians to the form-fitting black t-shirt." "If the Egyptians