Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°2
An eclectic one. Ethiopian and Ivorian pop, Philly neo soul, Swedish and South African rap and
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Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
Music Break. YaoBobby ft. Fredy Massamba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIOwmypmwk There's a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West
Music Break. Rattex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIMT_vNtFQ8 Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town's Long Street,
TV Heads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ahXv7TT8k 'Kichwateli' ('TV head' < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project.
How Europe is Evolving Toward Africa
No, this is not about the anxieties of Niall Ferguson. Anthropologist John Comaroff spoke at The
Watch The Throne
South African Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) released his new album Motswafrika. It comes complete with its own politics.
Music Break. Badi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_mOvMcD5gI Remember Brussels artist Badi (BD Banx on the Héritage project or his Beasty Boys-styled video
Edgar Sekloka wrote a book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QGPTviZkw Taking up the fashionable concept of the book trailer, Edgar Sekloka, one half of French
The silence between portraits
Number 17 in our ‘Found Objects’: The short documentary, ‘Mr. Mkhize,’ by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Music Break. The Funk League
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXD50lsRGk An older song by The Funk League, but it comes with a new video. Featuring
Music Break. Booker T. Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIB6g9uay2U Booker T. Jones on the keyboard with Jim James (of My Morning Jacket fame) singing
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition
5 for le weekend. "Propaganda" one of a series of songs/videos made by The King's Will --one
Music Break. X Plastaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzUH_Hdm-iQ Nice work by Tanzanian crew X Plastaz, with some help of Fid Q, Bamba Nazar
Woyzeck on the Highveld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvUK3GJdOHk In case you were too young to attend William Kentridge's original version of the early
'My Africa is in the dark'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07TzARpqxU Malian rapper Mokobe ripped into French perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain’s comments about "hard working blacks" in
Gaddafi’s white African mercenaries
Muammar Gaddafi relied extensively on mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa to secure his rule. It is usually assumed they’re black Africans. It turns out a lot of them come from South Africa. And they’re white.
Independence day in Zambia
That's today. Other than Chiluba's shoes, Sata's anti-China rants (he's stopped for now), Alexandra Fuller's books
Not what the mainstream image is
If you can’t get Coldplay’s stadium rock out of your head, try these 10 (well, eleven) tunes.
The Dutch Disease
The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.
Photography. Jean Depara
In Paris the Maison Revue Noire gallery presents a retrospective on the work of photographer Jean Depara. Born