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We plugged Kinshasa-born Gracias not too long ago. This is the video for Mon€y, another track
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Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
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

Celebrate a country's independence day by featuring some of the music of its young people. This is Madagascar's turn today, June 26th.

In celebrating Mozambican independence day, we made a list of the most popular music videos in mid-2011.
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

The extended Weekend Music Break honors June 16th, 1976, featuring music from young South African artists, many of whom gained recognition online.
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

We're not sure what Beyonce is trying to say with her music video for her female empowerment song, "Run the World." You're guest is as good as ours.