http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwuubhJTLc The Chicago-born jazz musician Matana Roberts, performing live in London late last year. If you

The trailer for "Black Butterflies," the new Dutch film about the 1960s Afrikaans writer, Ingrid Jonker,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUZpOjUKcM This is from a minute ago, but I had to post it as it features

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwrpX3wMD2o The music video for a new song by Nigerian rapper/R&B singer D'Banj featuring Snoop Dogg

http://vimeo.com/19132287 Video of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra performing live January 21, 2011, in New York City.

[vodpod id=Video.5523753&w=500&h=411&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffr.player-feed.previewnetworks.com%2Fv3.1%2Fcinema%2F5444%2F331100125-1%2F] Director Pascale Lamche’s got some help from Peter Mukurube (that's him putting Sepp Blatter

[vodpod id=Video.5351396&w=500&h=411&fv=endpoint%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fmusic%2Fvideo%2F2011%2Fjan%2F12%2Fbritish-sea-power-live-session-control-video%2Fjson] It must be the moment. British band British Sea Power's anti-privatization pop song, "Who's

http://www.vimeo.com/19559138 These striking images of protesters on Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 1 was shot

http://vimeo.com/11961440 Cape Town/Atlanta singer Lindiwe Suttle and Abbot Network, performing "Sweet like Butta," for the online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmWi0vn5Y4 Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary.

A graphic novel probably doesn't come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing's City of

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here's Moody in 1989--live with Dizzy

Yan Gross, the Swiss photographer and skateboarder--in an interview with South African journalist, Sean O'Toole, in

[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing "Music Man" on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7eQyasgw0 Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0Vpse9n8w&rel=0 The first weekly episode (posted on Fridays) of 'creative Africa video blog,' WHAT'S UP AFRICA,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1scxpmbWQ NEWSWEEK [magazine]'s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to

We know that the Egyptian dictator has a macabre sense of humor: I am fed up.