Sampling Semenya
An interview in a (South African) Sunday paper with a 'hopping mad' Caiphus Semenya (the South
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Harlem is Nowhere
Excerpt from Sharifa Rhodes Pitts' memoir of the black metropolis, "Harlem is Nowhere," which came out
Music Break / Maurice Kirya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fABDPF3yG8k "Wooye" by Ugandan crooner Maurice Kirya.
Nicolas Jaar covers Abdullah Ibrahim
From May this year: "... an unrehearsed, first-take cut" of Nicolas Jaar's remix (recorded in London)
Independence Day: Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire celebrated their 51st year of independence from France yesterday. Music has played a role
Weekend Special, August 5
The famine in the Horn of Africa has revived the debate about "starvation photography." The blog
August 5, Burkina Faso
Upper Volta became independent on this day in 1960. In 1984, Thomas Sankara changed its name to Burkina Faso.
Princess Fatu
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZriKcTa2YUk&w=600&h=373] Back in the states, I'm going to be able to fulfill my promise to
'The Truth About Crime'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYngRIzG3Uk&w=600&h=373] “In South Africa,” anthropologist Jean Comaroff tells us in this lecture, “murder rates are held
The new auteur in South African cinema
An Interview with film director Oliver Hermanus, who has made “Skoonheid,” a film about homophobia, sexual violence and white Afrikaner masculinity. Hermanus is a coloured and black director.
Chief Boima plays Lincoln Center
http://vimeo.com/27181692 He's not just a blogger. This Sunday, August 7, at Lincoln Center DJ Chief Boima,
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHORG4L8Od8 Nneka--a AIAC favorite--performing an acoustic version of her song, "Do You Love Me Now?" for
August 3, Niger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adfb17JQYtg Let's celebrate Niger's independence day with a recording of Omara “Bombino” Moctar, whose story of
Cape Doctor
Photo Credit: Doreen R [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/19741147"]
Muthoni The Drummer Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywfyv5fdgM4 Your Music Break: from Nairobi. Via Kate Bomz
Vargas Llosa in Congo
Not sure whether Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, El Sueño del Celta (The Dream
Simphiwe Dana and Mthwakazi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjyibxWzWkA&w=600&h=373] Your Music Break: Simphiwe Dana, live, singing in Xhosa, accompanied by another South African singer, Mthwakazi,
August 1, Benin
Maybe not the most popular artist in Benin today, but the country's independence day is a
Music Break / Ana Tijoux
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jFThFnGTY&w=600&h=373] Last week in Bolinas, CA, my friend, Kora McNaughton (she lives in Santiago), got me
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, “The Bang Bang Club,” treats some of the Bang Bang Club’s black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.