Ethiopian Democracy Lesson
Sean Jacobs Earlier this week the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi addressed a public lecture on
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ulurhU7CI "Days of Fire" by Nitin Sawhney featuring Natty (his mother is from Lesotho, btw) performed
Spoek Comes to New York City
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWFUXYqFUU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Spoek Mathambo, the part-time Johannesburg-based "... Post-Apartheid, Post-Hip Hop Posterboy," is interviewed by BSTV during
African 'World Music'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mHMWO_-mM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Nigerian superstars P-Square doing "Do Me." This is not your average world music band.
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Nine young filmmakers and artists look into Congo’s histories, its present and future desires.
'Someday We’ll All Be Free'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gn6WMcYKzI I first saw this video this summer when it was posted online. I love the
Cédric Gerbehaye’s Congo
You probably know Belgian photographer Cedric Gerbehaye from his portrait of Laurent Nkunda. That 2007 picture
Mugabe’s a Chicken
http://vimeo.com/14615574 I don't care much for Cape Town group Freshlyground's muzak. But you can't deny the
Vogue Africa
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGqwvyugbZI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Video of legendary 1960s model Bethann Hardison interviewing Togolese-American model David Agbodji for Vogue Italia.
Friday Links
I, like a few others here at AIAC, update my Twitter feed regularly, but occasionally I
The Good Life
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/12812385 w=500&h=281] The promo for South African-US duo Blk Sonshine's latest release.
The Good Guys
This film “Mugabe and the White African,” is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.
David Adjaye's Urban Africa
For a while now I've been wanting to post some of the images by celebrated architect
Our People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mPUpojd84&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This past summer at least three prominent figures of the Cape Town jazz scene--the saxophone
The Proper Use of a Vuvuzela
Geert Wilders, the rightwing Dutch politician was in New York last week to lend support to
The Scramble for Vinyl
The trend among rare-groove DJs to make money of “discovering” and “rediscovering” old vinyl in Africa and then rereleasing the music under their own labels.
Music Mondays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SK_Z_LGEac&w=500&h=301&rel=0] These guys are obsessed with the elements. The band is named for the cold current
Simphiwe Dana Speaks
Simphiwe Dana is probably the most talented female singer of her generation from South Africa. (Thandiswa
Brooklyn Block Party
Via Soul of Brooklyn
The Pan African Space Station
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dydtXJ94CE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Detroit DJ and producer, Theo Parrish, is one of the artists slated to appear at the