
Tweezus, Da Gawd
The producer and beatmaker, Tweezy, is behind many of 2014 and 2015’s most successful South African hip hop somgs.
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Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.

The producer and beatmaker, Tweezy, is behind many of 2014 and 2015’s most successful South African hip hop somgs.

The combined sounds of indigenous groups from northern Colombia with the drums imported with African slaves in Cartagena, once the biggest slave port of the American continent.


A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.

The relationship between the massacre of workers at Marikana and the rational destiny of market fundamentalism.

El Chapo is already a cartoon that has too much literature. Just like the Mexican government has too much corruption.



The Basotho people must have a stake in the production and distribution of their culture.

An interview – captured on film – with Cape Town-born artist Kemang Wa Lehulere about his work.

Here’s two: Cultivate solidarity, not pity. And, showing suffering should be specific. Study up.

The blinding privilege of South Africa’s ‘white’ middle and upper class which has found new means of subjugation: online community groups.

For one, their original crime: Gathering as a book club and reading the books ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’ and ‘Tools to Destroy a Dictator and Avoid a New Dictatorship.’

In 1976, the American tennis star, Arthur Ashe, went to play in a tennis tournament in Lagos and promptly found himself in the middle of a coup by Nigeria’s military.


Ts’eliso Monaheng meets with Cape Town’s beatmakers, including the celebrated jazz bassist, Shane Cooper, known as Card on Spokes.

In the work of the novelist, Okey Ndibe, the influences of the United States, especially that everything is available for a price, is everywhere in Nigeria.

Germany’s military shift represents the country’s belated entry into a “colonial present.“

I asked African and Africanist thinkers and commentators what they make of Syriza’s approach to dealing with creditors and what wider connections they can draw to our conditions.