What is ‘Champeta Urbana’?
An interview with musician, Kevin Flórez, about how a music imported by West African sailors to 1970s Colombia became the soundtrack of his city, Cartagena.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Israel’s “blackwashing”
Israel’s promotion of itself as a technologically-advanced “white savior” on an aid mission to poor black nations, is a marketing ploy to cover the occupation.
Mandela Day: Where is our imagination?
We've just passed that time of year when the Charitable Industrial Complex puts on its Sunday best
The ‘Brazil of Africa’
That’s not a compliment. It is about how development institutions are financing land grabs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tweezus, Da Gawd
The producer and beatmaker, Tweezy, is behind many of 2014 and 2015’s most successful South African hip hop somgs.
Music, Tradition and Race
The combined sounds of indigenous groups from northern Colombia with the drums imported with African slaves in Cartagena, once the biggest slave port of the American continent.
Weekend Music Break No.81
Your weekend music break for July 18th, 2015 This week, master of the new school J.
The Obama Sevens
A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.
The lesson of Marikana
The relationship between the massacre of workers at Marikana and the rational destiny of market fundamentalism.
#RespecTheProducer – Christian Tiger School’s Tapes are made out of Chrome
Sean Magner takes a peek into the world of production duo Christian Tiger School by way of
El Chapo’s New Escape
El Chapo is already a cartoon that has too much literature. Just like the Mexican government has too much corruption.
Lagos, the city of divides
Lagos, is the only city in Nigeria worthy of being described as a human potpourri. No
In Morocco, a judge agrees: #mettre_une_robe_ nest_pas_un_crime
Yesterday, in Inezgane, south of Agadir, on the southern part of Morocco’s Atlantic Ocean coast, a
The cultural question
The Basotho people must have a stake in the production and distribution of their culture.
History will break your heart
An interview – captured on film – with Cape Town-born artist Kemang Wa Lehulere about his work.
Five things that can’t be ignored about development photography
Here’s two: Cultivate solidarity, not pity. And, showing suffering should be specific. Study up.
Buying, Swapping and Selling domestic workers
The blinding privilege of South Africa’s ‘white’ middle and upper class which has found new means of subjugation: online community groups.
What you need to know about #free15Angolans
For one, their original crime: Gathering as a book club and reading the books ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’ and ‘Tools to Destroy a Dictator and Avoid a New Dictatorship.’
Arthur Ashe and the Military Coup
In 1976, the American tennis star, Arthur Ashe, went to play in a tennis tournament in Lagos and promptly found himself in the middle of a coup by Nigeria’s military.
Weekend Music Break No.80
Africa is a Country is now on Break for the weekend, so here is some Music