Tuareg Nationalism
A quick survey of Western media suggests Tuareg nationalist claims don't carry the same weight as
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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.
The most influential African thinker
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa’s most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Gaddafi spoof
http://youtu.be/cYplvwBvGA4 The trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy, "The Dictator," where he plays a thinly
Serge Ibaka Has No Country
We don’t blame people those who can’t figure out their DRC from their ROC or their Kinshasa from their Brazzaville.
Necessary doses of pan-Africanism: Esperanza Spalding’s “Black Gold”
http://youtu.be/Nppb01xhfe0 It's not too late to take your vitamins. And this. Jazz bass player and bandleader
Financial Times blues
I read The Financial Times because they cover the news that is essential to capital and those who rule us. But most of time I just don't get their op-ed page.
When Rick Ross went to South Africa and Gabon
For some odd reason the latest issue of The New Yorker ran a profile of rapper
Everybody wants in on the final
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaIQpD3MdyA Some coupe decale to warm you up for the African Cup of Nations final later
Music Break. King Mensah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENNr_Mw2hNs Some mellow Togolese sounds and a sunny video.
Surfer dude
http://youtu.be/kmv4o3XHPM0 Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa,
Tech Apartheid
Our tech posts never stray from tweeting new data on Twitter and Facebook usage on the continent--but now and then--as occasional readers of Gizmodo and Kotaku--we pause.
50 Cent goes to Somalia
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to
One shot project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8DqXwojm68 This is Hache. Oh, and the DJ. And that's your music break.
Africa’s first 21st century global pop star?
Nigerian D’Banj draws big crowds on the continent and regularly plays the diaspora circuit in cities like London. Next, pop stardom.
If commercials were a competition
A sample of some of the TV commercials made specifically for the 2012 African Cup of Nations football tournament.
Pharoahe Monch is ‘Still Standing’
http://youtu.be/tBfMuf_JjI0 One of the best rappers alive, featuring the lady who sang the original hook on
“Can you think of a country that starts with the letter U?”
You've seen those "Are you smarter than a 5 year old" videos on Youtube (it's an
Senegalese Sushi
I still mourn the day I walked around to Le Grand Dakar, one of my favorite restaurants in Clinton Hill, and found it was closed. The restaurant, run and owned by Chef Pierre Thiam (check out his interesting family backstory) was a fixture in the block around Grand Ave and Lafayatte.
Inbox
It has come to this. Don't focus too much on the 'your scholarship' line. An email
The First Black Woman to win Sundance Best Director
Aava DuVernay leads a movement to organize African-American film festivals and secure theatrical releases for black independent films.