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Rita Nketiah

Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJx1XXQw4U I could listen to Tamikrest all day long. This is a new song from the

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      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrIAi1Xwxt0 Brussels rapper Brams aka L'Insatiable (born in Cameroon) has been working on some promising collaborations

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      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bhISMRs7A Mo Kalamity and The Wizards, "Autour de Toi" from her album, Deeper Revolution Via Ikenna

      Coming to America

      Filmmakers like Nikyatu Jusu, of Sierra Leonean descent, provide reference points for young African immigrants growing up in the West.

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        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK_u-AAIYUM Today is Senegal's independence day. Carlou D transformed himself from the rapper he was in

          'The Problem of Race'

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLmUf9MgXcI The political scientist, Siba Grovogui, based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, interviewed about two

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            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcnxMgGhcOo I love the retro-feel and easy flow of this hiplife tune, "Faithful," by Okyeame Kwame

              Manning Marable

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyoAfZFQDHg On Monday a new book on Malcolm X by the American intellectual and historian Manning

                Snake Oil

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOwDQcPwbs Selling desperate people false hope, especially AIDS patients, are common on the African continent--well documented

                  The Land Question

                  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGkJsR7-HY] The Guardian's John Vidal reports from Ethiopia's remote Gambella region where in the last 10

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                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EriPgiXV0 I like this video for Sayon Bamba's song 'L'excisée' (from her album Dougna). Born in