We plugged Kinshasa-born Gracias not too long ago. This is the video for Mon€y, another track

There’s so much going on in these 8 minutes of rap by Akala, we can only

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year’s Rwanda Film Festival going down

We liked the previous recent work by DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger. No surprise then the result

Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe doing

Earlier this year, Djiboutians marched the streets of their capital (where more than half of all

Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=932nXiUN-dY Nice video for “Bienvenue au Cameroun”, a track by Cameroonian (yeah) artist Ayriq Akam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRmpJ_EpJE Dub Colossus member Samuel Yirga “plays one night a week in Addis’s only jazz club/coffee

At the margins of this year’s Art Basel (15-19 June) and curated by Christine Eyene, FOCUS11

TV On The Radio‘s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone join Tinariwen for this song. BTW, Tinariwen

Johannesburg-based Tumi of Tumi and The Volume has released a mixtape. It seems to be in

We’re impressed. Like we were last year. (Via)

Over the course of fifteen years (1994-2009), Elke Zuern has interviewed civic and social movement leaders,

I don’t know much about South African musician Fifi the Rai Blaster but I like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTa28a8QKo4 I haven’t heard Michael Kiwanuka‘s debut EP yet, but this song is promising, to say