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
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Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
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
Music Break. Nkunkuma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcQKYdWKoY Cameroon ('Kamer') hip hop is churning out lots of videos lately. Like this one by
Being Black in Germany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqCd6QCqJk Sharon Dodua Otoo is hoping to edit the book series 'Witnessed', written in English by
Contro'Versy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEoTKCpPv4 Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated
'Emerging' Photographers
Paris Photo will celebrate its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais this year. With a “Place
Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea
Equatoguineans may not have much to celebrate on independence day: They’ve been free from colonialism since 1968, but the current ruler has been in power since 1979.
R.I.P. Dieudonné Kabongo
The Belgian-Congolese comedian, actor and musician Dieudonné Kabongo has passed away.
Massage for Africa
"BE TOUCHED. It touches you, if you allow yourself to be touched. Massage for Africa." On
Black Power Mixtape
A critic of the documentary film, “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,” concludes that as an insight into black power, the documentary is utterly incoherent and useless.