'Days of Fire'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ulurhU7CI "Too much politics and the clang of commerce" is staining 9/11 commemorations here in New
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Music Break / Beirut
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLdCoVnESsY&w=600&h=369] I've had this on repeat. New Mexico band Beirut's mesh of Balkan and "world music"
Typecasting Binyavanga Wainaina
In “One Day I Will Write About This Place,” Wainaina wants to create a life uniquely his own.
Music Break / Lexxus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZmwWZUYUU New video for the Congolese AIAC favorite Lexxus, recorded in Kinshasa, featuring the Kinois rapper
The Real Maids of Beirut
The vast majority of domestic workers in the Middle East are migrant workers. A fair number are from Africa, particularly Kenya and Ethiopia.
50 Cent Wants to Help Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHT0zLgDoj8 Remember when rapper 50 Cent announced that he would try to provide 1 billion meals
Funky Liberia
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOq_6aVOqPI] Italy based, UK Funky influenced, electronic music purveyors Pepe Soup recently released the
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Weekend Special, August 12
Liberian Hipco music culture — "Liberia's version of hip-hop; the 'co' is short for colloquial or
Independence August
Since we'll be on break for a minute (details tomorrow) when the following central African countries
Music Break / Fatoumata Diawara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82BifytoYY Easy listening. 'Bassa' is a song by the Côte d'Ivoire-born, Mali-raised and now France-based artist
Making a fool out of himself
Through his internet show, “What’s Up Africa!,” Ikenna Azuike delivers incisive commentary on media and cultural politics with irreverence and humor.
Song and Dance
By Dan Moshenberg Tuesday, August 9, 2011, was the annual celebration, in South Africa, of National
August 11, Chad
There's still time left to recognize Chad's Independence Day today, and keeping with our regular feature,
Music Break / Lalcko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSIO_eAomrs French-Cameroonian rapper Lalcko released a strong record earlier this year: 'L’eau lave mais l’argent rend
There’s more to Staten Island than ‘Mob Wives’ and Wu Tang Clan
Photographer Glenna Gordon, no stranger to AIAC, is working on a new project in Staten Island,
An American Singer in Mali
Adam Klein from Georgia in the United States wants to blend rustic acoustic Mande music with American roots music.
You no longer need to be white to feel like a tourist in South Africa
What do you do as a South African tourist industry when the promised surge in visitors
Music Break / Y'akoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgMKpaWG_E German-Ghanian singer Y'akoto's biography on her website made me look up the meaning of the
The news about Romelu Lukaku
You've heard the news about Romelu Lukaku? The 18-year-old Belgian-Congolese striker signed a contract with his