Something in the water
Africa’s best football players come from West Africa. That’s just facts.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
The documentary imaginery
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film "Atletu" (The
Brakpan
Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul's images
All of the party
A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.
Giving the Bizness
This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.
GAL draws Africa
71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work
Found Objects No.20
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Q10g_Mov4&w=600&h=349] From an episode of American comedian Drew Carey's sketch comedy show, "Whose Line is it Anyway."
Massalia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik'n) clearly had
Tumi's Tête Savante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYx3j7ilKn8 We presume you've had Tumi and the Volume's latest album, Pick A Dream, as much
New Clothes
We're tinkering with our design. Stick around for a few days while we're figure this out.
Africa and contemporary art
I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term
'See me on television' (in Lesotho)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjCZaAsg3A From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs's 'Hona Joale', recorded in the
Music Break. Kouyaté-Neerman
http://youtu.be/9l-HzZEwNUs We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage
Congo votes
Over the past week, it was hard to find an article published in a major international
The afterlife of African studio photography
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,
The Northern Ireland Connection
A new film challenges the “rainbow nation” narrative, highlighting South Africa’s unfulfilled transformation. It involves local filmmakers, with 10% of profits supporting Cape Town’s activists.
Doctor Mac
This is number 4 in the music break series, Paris is a Continent.
I Remember Black Pete
Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe’s Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.
The return of the one party state
The regime of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Liberia’s first post-conflict president, is increasingly guilty of lack of accountability and abetting corruption.
Global Genre Accumulation
If there’s an underground dance scene or marginalized community nearby, Diplo or some DJ like him has or probably will “discover,” re-frame, and sell it to audiences in another part of the world.