I like this video for Sayon Bamba’s song ‘L’excisée’ (from her album Dougna). Born in Guinea

“The Zimbabwe Alliance is a funder/advocate partnership to promote a vibrant civil society and a successful

Remember the Belgian-Congolese project Héritage? It took them a while to record a video for one

In memory of Cameroonian artist Goddy Leye (1965-2011).

If you can’t make it to Stockholm next week, visiting The Hague might be a good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_O62AItxTs Not the official video for BLK JKS‘s Zol!”

French-Congolese musician Abd Al Malik’s star is rising fast in Francophone Europe. Behind his, say, rather

Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly building

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.

Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music

I received my copy of this year’s Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love in

Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money–what else do they do?–gets our vote.

By Lebon Ziavoula, a member of Congo-Brazzaville photographers collective, Generation Elili. Via Afrique in Visu.

We’ve plugged Fredy Massamba before. ‘Ntoto’ is taken from his album Ethnophony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg18qsycBk It’s late already, but it is still March 6: Ghana Independence Day. Dutch rapper Kno’Ledge

Pioneer Unit’s on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection

Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read her

Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his

Tidal Waves (the “hardest working band in South Africa” – they really are) played a set