Making a fool out of himself
Through his internet show, “What’s Up Africa!,” Ikenna Azuike delivers incisive commentary on media and cultural politics with irreverence and humor.
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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.
There’s more to Staten Island than ‘Mob Wives’ and Wu Tang Clan
Photographer Glenna Gordon, no stranger to AIAC, is working on a new project in Staten Island,
An American Singer in Mali
Adam Klein from Georgia in the United States wants to blend rustic acoustic Mande music with American roots music.
Harlem is Nowhere
Excerpt from Sharifa Rhodes Pitts' memoir of the black metropolis, "Harlem is Nowhere," which came out
Music Break / Maurice Kirya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fABDPF3yG8k "Wooye" by Ugandan crooner Maurice Kirya.
Nicolas Jaar covers Abdullah Ibrahim
From May this year: "... an unrehearsed, first-take cut" of Nicolas Jaar's remix (recorded in London)
Weekend Special, August 5
The famine in the Horn of Africa has revived the debate about "starvation photography." The blog
Chief Boima plays Lincoln Center
http://vimeo.com/27181692 He's not just a blogger. This Sunday, August 7, at Lincoln Center DJ Chief Boima,
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHORG4L8Od8 Nneka--a AIAC favorite--performing an acoustic version of her song, "Do You Love Me Now?" for
Cape Doctor
Photo Credit: Doreen R [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/19741147"]
Muthoni The Drummer Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywfyv5fdgM4 Your Music Break: from Nairobi. Via Kate Bomz
Simphiwe Dana and Mthwakazi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjyibxWzWkA&w=600&h=373] Your Music Break: Simphiwe Dana, live, singing in Xhosa, accompanied by another South African singer, Mthwakazi,
Music Break / Ana Tijoux
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jFThFnGTY&w=600&h=373] Last week in Bolinas, CA, my friend, Kora McNaughton (she lives in Santiago), got me
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, “The Bang Bang Club,” treats some of the Bang Bang Club’s black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Weekend Special, July 23
* Philip Gourevitch, of The New Yorker, probably still healing from the mauling he got over
Colonialism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHK308_MTiU&w=600&h=373] A satirical film made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. Worth seeing again. It
Flash Mob
http://youtu.be/5iIFqHMOE1g No it's not a protest. It's PR for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth
Spinning in Gauteng
http://vimeo.com/16724676 Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning
Mandela's heirs
http://vimeo.com/26538549 The documentary "Dear Mandela," about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban,
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town’s Cape Flats.