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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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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrIAi1Xwxt0 Brussels rapper Brams aka L'Insatiable (born in Cameroon) has been working on some promising collaborations
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bhISMRs7A Mo Kalamity and The Wizards, "Autour de Toi" from her album, Deeper Revolution Via Ikenna
'Dear Africa'
Off his new album, Blitz the Ambassador featuring Les Nubians. Free download here.
Coming to America
Filmmakers like Nikyatu Jusu, of Sierra Leonean descent, provide reference points for young African immigrants growing up in the West.
Khayelitsha Blues
http://vimeo.com/14834791 South African guitar duo Warongx are two of several artists portrayed in The Creators documentary.
Regular people and the international justice system
Images and stories of people being violated still seem to dominate global perceptions of Sierra Leone. Two new films want to undercut that image.
Election Blues
A reader: $1 billion for an election and you'd think ballots would be delivered, on time,
Music Break
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
(Re)construções
Lawrence Lemaoana is one of 13 South African artists selected by curator Daniella Géo for the
'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
Nairobi in April
Writer Mike Pflanz and photographer Brendan Bannon's new site Daily Dispatches: Nairobi "... is an innovative
Rebecca Black Incorporated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7W-ko3Bbt8 Seven plus minutes of your life you'll never get back. Stella Mwangi with "Haba Haba,"Norway's
No Comment
There's a labor dispute between the NFL, which runs American football, and players (the fight is
Music Break
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
Coming Out in Cameroon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnrHhRLFPqo One of the human rights activists featuring in the 2009 documentary Cameroon: Coming Out of
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EriPgiXV0 I like this video for Sayon Bamba's song 'L'excisée' (from her album Dougna). Born in