His father named him for Duke Ellington
Late jazz musician Duke Ngcukana, has been described as “a trumpet player extraordinaire," and "a fine person.”
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
What do African leaders have in common?
Seun Kuti, Fela's son, and for some the true heir of his father's musical legacy while charting his own part, has a new album and a lot of opinions.
Must Be Something in the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GvkDgP30A Seriously, this is not ironic. UNICEF is bottling Rihanna and other celebrities’ tap water and
Cameroon is Cameroon
A mix of factors - language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression - prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.
The Prophet Karl Marx
Few intellectuals have changed the world in such practical ways.
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.
The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo's whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
Dakar Modern
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbSVS0AmtA] I’ve been wanting to post for a while now about the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Primarily
John Akomfrah is Brilliant
British filmmaker John Akonfrah will be artist-in-residence this Spring at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.
The American Right’s problem with Kenya
How did Kenya and Kenyans get their reputations in US politics, particularly among U.S.. rightwingers, as anti-American?
Dictators and Pop Stars
A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Gay in Africa
Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.
The Uprising
Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.
Branding The New Black
Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.
The Grammys
Distracted by Cee Lo’s chicken suit or Lady Gaga’s latest stunt (she hatched from an egg),
Hosni Mubarak has a macabre sense of humor
We know that the Egyptian dictator has a macabre sense of humor: I am fed up.
People who have lost the habit of ruling themselves
Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.
The Life and Death of David Kato
The Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was murdered on January 26th, 2011.