Friday Links
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
The Good Life
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/12812385 w=500&h=281] The promo for South African-US duo Blk Sonshine's latest release.
The Good Guys
This film “Mugabe and the White African,” is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.
David Adjaye's Urban Africa
For a while now I've been wanting to post some of the images by celebrated architect
Our People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mPUpojd84&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This past summer at least three prominent figures of the Cape Town jazz scene--the saxophone
The Proper Use of a Vuvuzela
Geert Wilders, the rightwing Dutch politician was in New York last week to lend support to
The Scramble for Vinyl
The trend among rare-groove DJs to make money of “discovering” and “rediscovering” old vinyl in Africa and then rereleasing the music under their own labels.
Music Mondays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SK_Z_LGEac&w=500&h=301&rel=0] These guys are obsessed with the elements. The band is named for the cold current
Simphiwe Dana Speaks
Simphiwe Dana is probably the most talented female singer of her generation from South Africa. (Thandiswa
Brooklyn Block Party
Via Soul of Brooklyn
The Pan African Space Station
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dydtXJ94CE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Detroit DJ and producer, Theo Parrish, is one of the artists slated to appear at the
Music Break
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/14091396 w=500&h=281] The debut music video from Nigerian-born, "alternative-soul" artist, Bez. The video was shot in
How democracy is lived
From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa’s middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.
The New South Africa
… This is a time when the fruits are growing out of something that was sown
V.S. Naipaul does Africa
The British writer V.S. Naipaul's previous forays into Africa were fictional: The novels "A Bend in
Shameless Self Promotion
Since Herman is too modest, I'll do it: A new book he edited on media politics
Nairobi Style
Via Nairobi Style
An African Alan Lomax
Afropop has a great audio program on Hugh Tracey, who recorded over 250 albums of "traditional"
Music for Africa
This 60 minute radio program on the music and ideas of Oumou Sangare--known as "The Songbird
As-Salāmu Alaykum
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/13045384 w=600&h=368] This short clip of Brooklyn's Mos Def, offering greetings while performing at the most