We like Dakar-based rapper Awadi around here. Now he’s teamed up with Tunisian artist Samy Dorbez to bring

Karen Rothmyer writing in this month’s Columbia Journalism Review on why NGOs prefer bad news when

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYSvKiJShQ&w=500&h=317] That was our second question. Our first was, “What is this?” The answer to the

What happens when journalists attack? To find out, look no further than the pages of this month’s

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDLpk1RR-Lk&w=500&h=307] Among artists that need no introduction are The Noisettes, and their lead singer Shingai Shoniwa.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKrVB5f2W0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Earlier this year, Belgian-Rwandan singer Stromae spent several weeks at number one across various countries

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VVAzFlmeWc&w=500&h=307] Zambia’s JK may now be a part of African supergroup One8 but on his own,

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylmmkQWd22s&w=500&h=307] Today is World AIDS Day, which means you can expect the gatekeepers of Team: Save

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Ac9GAKsQA&w=500&h=307] We love Ghanaian-American rapper Blitz the Ambassador around here and, frankly, you should too. He

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya1YwFej2tk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Guess who’s back, pinch-hitting for the Africans? R. Kelly! If you liked his contribution to

If you’ve got two minutes, here’s the trailer for the highly anticipated (that’s debatable) biopic of

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s03ErM4BDms&w=500&h=307] This Sunday, Guineans will go to the polls in a presidential run-off contest between ex-Prime