Let the music
Hinda Talhaoui, originally from Paris but based in Brooklyn, drops the second of her posts highlighting the music of her hometown.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°1
Girl Power is big among female West African pop singers. Or so recent music videos suggest.
Die Antwoord’s At It Again
How long will be tolerate South African rappers, Die Antwoord’s racist and homophobic antics?
Africa gets new football kits
Puma created new kits for African teams ahead of the 2012 African Cup of Nations. At first sight, it looks exciting. Up close, the designers stuck to conservative.
David Cameron's gay rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhEkB0AOQs Fresh from insulting British women, Prime Minister David Cameron is now endangering the lives of
Of blood, tears, ink and screen
The birth of a promising publication, WARSCAPES. Let’s support and wish them long life.
Music Break. Badi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_mOvMcD5gI Remember Brussels artist Badi (BD Banx on the Héritage project or his Beasty Boys-styled video
Malema Time
South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema’s brand of populist politics.
Edgar Sekloka wrote a book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QGPTviZkw Taking up the fashionable concept of the book trailer, Edgar Sekloka, one half of French
Liberian Demo-crazy
There's been a lot of rumors and propaganda flying around related to the Liberian run-off election,
Music Break. Alec Lomami
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over
The silence between portraits
Number 17 in our ‘Found Objects’: The short documentary, ‘Mr. Mkhize,’ by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Good doses of pan-Africanism
Since it first came out last year I've had Nas and Damian Marley's concept album Distant
Photography. Fatoumata Kande Senghor
Information.
Music Break. The Funk League
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXD50lsRGk An older song by The Funk League, but it comes with a new video. Featuring
Wikipedia and oral knowledge
Verifiability and no original research are two core content policies for contributors to Wikipedia. You need to back
Take me to your leader: Babatunde Fashola
The Governor of Lagos has larger ambitions than just governing Nigeria’s and probably Africa’s most vibrant megacity.
Paris is a Continent
The first in a series exploring the music of France’s capital. Hinda Talhaoui, originally from Paris’ suburbs, is our guide.
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0
Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe. In this hilarious video
Africa Gathering
http://vimeo.com/25519731 I'm in DC this weekend for the Africa Gathering social entrepreneurship conference. (Video of the London