The Grammys are irrelevant
Why are the Grammys so clueless about what is contemporary Latin pop music? They keep handing out awards to veterans like Ruben Blades or Vicente Fernández.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
#SAHipHop2014: When South African Hip Hop Met The Internet
It’s all my father’s fault! Sometime towards the end of the nineties, I remember him bringing
The African Rock Art Digital Archive
Last summer, I got the chance to visit the Origins Museum on the University of the
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jim Chuchu
The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.
Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country’s post-socialist modernity through dance.
Football, Disappearances and Disasters in Haiti
The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens’s football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti’s US’s supported dictatorship.
The Black Messiah
John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.
The news from South Africa
…or the constant deferral of reconciliation
Just one long war
The US is re-upping its failed “war on drugs” in Central America. The spin is they will fight “violence and poverty.” This won’t end well.
Bogotá’s Music
Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.
African Hip Hop
This week I thought I'd try something a little different, inspired by some links I came
Roger Young’s ‘Keys, Money, Phone’ explores the heart of young whiteness in Cape Town
Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and
Your concepts of African belonging
The El Foukr R’Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.
Many Terence Rangers
If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.
Africa Cup of Nations Memories
Watchiing the African Cup of Nations before the era of internet streams and mass football broadcasting in North America.
Apartheid is not truly behind us
It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city’s busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.
El México Guerrero: Ayotzinapa’s defiant struggle for justice
On the night of September 26th, 2014, in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, 43 students
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Newton Aduaka
For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.
Do critiques of representation make a real difference?
The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.
The birth of Malawian hip hop
Bantu Khamuladzi are pioneers of Malawian hip hop. Like most first generation African hip hop artists, they mimicked American styles, then found their own voices.