The Northern Ireland Connection
A new film challenges the “rainbow nation” narrative, highlighting South Africa’s unfulfilled transformation. It involves local filmmakers, with 10% of profits supporting Cape Town’s activists.
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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.
Batsumi's cascade of sound
By Dan Magaziner* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CslrKtKe16k South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy.
Ingerland, Ingerland, Ingerland
Late last month the English goalkeeper David James wrote in The Observer that he was surprised
Demba Ba
Demba Ba has a habit of falling to his knees post-goal and praying. Via FIFA.com: Premier League
"You're a South African, what's your story?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrtm5kwpXrQ New Zealand is often sold to prospective (mostly white) South African immigrants as "South Africa
Music Break. Fatima Al Qadiri
http://youtu.be/hKosaf5tmpI Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised musician and artist Fatima Al Qadiri just premiered her new EP, "Genre-Specific Xperience,"
Mapo do mundo
Remember the Mapping Stereotypes Project and the Afrographique project? (The former maps popular national stereotypes from
Omar Sy, French movie icon
By Abdourahman Waberi Released only a week ago, 'Intouchables' the film (by Eric Toledano & Olivier
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°1
Girl Power is big among female West African pop singers. Or so recent music videos suggest.
Die Antwoord’s At It Again
How long will be tolerate South African rappers, Die Antwoord’s racist and homophobic antics?
David Cameron's gay rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhEkB0AOQs Fresh from insulting British women, Prime Minister David Cameron is now endangering the lives of
Music Break. Alec Lomami
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over
Good doses of pan-Africanism
Since it first came out last year I've had Nas and Damian Marley's concept album Distant
Photography. Fatoumata Kande Senghor
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Wikipedia and oral knowledge
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Take me to your leader: Babatunde Fashola
The Governor of Lagos has larger ambitions than just governing Nigeria’s and probably Africa’s most vibrant megacity.
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0
Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe. In this hilarious video
The Mapping Stereotypes Project
The full set of "maps" here. H/T: Ignacio Fernandez Amunategui
'Suit Up'
http://vimeo.com/31434026 Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over
Music Break. Dengue Fever
http://youtu.be/5Lgy1p6mdVg A lot of music we like don't come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue