Memoirs about Africa
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor--he's written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe--and blogger, has a
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Zim Ngqawana
Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a prominent figure in the second generation of South African jazz musicians, passed away on Monday.
Some Men in South Africa
A 13-year-old South African girl is the latest victim of "corrective rape," in which men rape
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8QYVXqdSmg We've featured Dutch R&B singer, Ntjam Rosie, here before. We had to do it again.
Africa’s media considered
What is the state of the media in Africa? And how is it dealing with perhaps the biggest emerging story continent-wide, the rise of the extractive sector?
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbhplk5rljc With a nod to the 1990s, one of our favorites, DJ Premier, presents "A New
Letter from Tunis
Tunisia, which kickstarted the “Arab Spring,” is in a long pause between longtime dictator Ben Ali’s flight and elections scheduled for July 2011.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88dMUreOLU Based in Pretoria, MsSupa shot and edited the video for her 'Dreams' herself, she tells
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
A sobering representation of the psychic scars that still haunt many Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.
Music Break
http://vimeo.com/22851785 L.A. singer Jimetta Rose (whom you might know from her guest vocals on Shafiq Husayn's
Made in Africa
I'm in the suburbs of Toronto this weekend and I go to bed early nowadays (my
Postapartheid Ideology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOiOkDRQv_w The video for "Go Getter," by Johannesburg's MB featuring Malika, which I saw playing once
Mad Max in Botswana
Botswana has a thriving heavy metal scene. These metal heads have their own specific style too.
Magnificent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlyWkM8aAs Earlier this week ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, including one for music during the
'For the Africans in the Diaspora'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDVUVosSgA From somewhere in American suburbia, the very frank, at times trite The Ten Minute Fix,
Ivorians in Liberia
Glenna Gordon's photography focuses on a neglected angle of the Ivorian crisis--since the most recent episode
Soccer Soap Opera
Who are the Kenyans who needed a soap opera as an impetus to change their attitudes about political violence and why did they need it?
Animal Farm
In Cape Town this January, Ken Salo invited Jessica and I to presentations by summer abroad
The ANC Goes Pop
Political parties in South Africa have a new challenge during elections: commissioning a pop ditty people can dance to while political candidates make empty promises from stages.
The Representation of Ghana
Could “Sakawa,” a form of internet scamming popular in Ghana, be a means by which to make to sense of contemporary life there?