The Sudanese pioneer of African cinema
In 1969, Gadalla Gubara and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Timité Bassori and Mustapha Alassane came up with an idea: FESPACO.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Brand Kuduro
How a music genre is selling Angola’s oil boom.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°5
One of my favorite MCs / hip hop producers, Damu the Fudgemunk. I always check for
French Tropicalism
When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.
Music Break. Rabbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMHfmP_Mig Kenyan artist Rabbit is working hard to get the word out about his new album
Mali’s Democracy–Down but not out
Is the adoption of a new constitution by Mali’s military regime a starting point for getting the soldiers back under civilian rule? Let’s game this out a little bit.
Cabinda is a Conflict Zone
Think tanks love to paint maps, often accompanied by short descriptions of the different crises a
My favorite photographs N°2: Scott Williams
South African photographer Scott Williams is the second guest in our new weekly series. He has,
Found Objects N°21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQb5qJRy0QY German singer-songwriter Joy Denalane (born to a South African father who's a cousin of Hugh
Nothing To Lose? The Art of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
The artist recognized early on that his sexuality constituted an obstacle between himself and his Nigerian background.
Okonjo-Wahala
Nigeria’s very unpopular finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose last name in local slang is made to sound like trouble, wants to be World Bank President. She’s the “African Renaissance” candidate. What do Nigerians make of it all?
Music Break. Szjerdene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5AYK-MilVM Londoner Szjerdene's Blue Lullaby. Her music is produced by Glenn Nichols, while the video was
‘Really you’re African?’
New humorous, but sharp, web series on "the African experience in America" wants to "refute negative portrayals of Africans in the media" and simultaneously work "as a window into the lives and traditions of individuals from different parts of the continent of Africa."
Mali’s Coup–‘Politics is Bad’
The idea that because the coup happened, it’s no longer worth taking positions on it is wrong-headed and dangerous. We should ask why, and why now.
The dancing Senegalese man
Senegal voted this weekend. Abdoulaye Wade is gone after 12 years. Macky Sall, once Wade's protege and variously prime minister and minister of mining under the old man is now in charge. We hope to have a few post election analyses posts up in the next few days. Till then enjoy the exuberance of "the dancing man" filmed by Al Jazeera journalist Azad Essa in Dakar last night.
Soweto Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhyqJb0VZtQ What better way to start the week than with some a cappella soul courtesy of
Paolo Patrizi’s photographs of ‘shrines to the shortcomings of globalization’
Italian photographer Paolo Patrizi says about his work on the "Italos": I used landscape shots to
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°4
Five for the weekend. I haven't done this in a while. First up Philadelphians Chill Moody (rapper) and
They talk a lot. Let them talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YL7FUiCtsA That first line is one by Tunde Adebimpe (joined by fellow TV on the Radio
Mali’s coup—First Thoughts
A few things are worth saying about the mutiny and the coup that rocked Bamako over the last few days.