The Whitney Soundtrack
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Nigeria Fashion Week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUvF8UcFfA Probably to coincide with New York Fashion Week, Vice released the Nigerian installment of its
Chipolopolo Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGjis0np20I The closer we got to Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations final, the more Zambian music
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
Introducing Angolan singer Aline Frazão
Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media’s pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.
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
The meaning of February 11, 1990
A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela–after 27 years–was released from prison.
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
The Copper Bullets
Zambia is on course to be Southern African nation since Bafana Bafana in 1996 to win the African Cup of Nations.
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.
What’s wrong with abortion
The war on women’s health in the United States is a war without borders. It also extends to attempts in Africa to legalize abortion. And the US Republican party and its auxiliaries are in front.
In Praise of Mohamed Aboutrika
Aboutrika is the ‘superman’ of Egypt’s football, probably the best African to never play professionally in Europe and a political leader.
Y’En A Marre’s political hip-hop anthems
8 of 13 Senegalese opposition candidates trying to unseat Abdoulaye Wade in the upcoming presidential elections (including three former prime ministers under Wade, and no-longer-candidate Youssou N'Dour) gathered on Obelisk Square in Dakar last Sunday. The rally went peaceful, "crowds of color-coordinated supporters awaited while listening to political hip-hop anthems in Wolof."
Nollywood and Hollywood
A Nollywood director has reached the dizzying heights of Hollywood, and all the famous names that come with it. What can happen?
If commercials were a competition
A sample of some of the TV commercials made specifically for the 2012 African Cup of Nations football tournament.