ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
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Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
No One Will Remember The Book Cover
I received my copy of this year's Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love in
Tidal Waves Goes South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9kJbnoPtI Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money--what else do they do?--gets our
Street Photographers in Brazzaville
By Lebon Ziavoula, a member of Congo-Brazzaville photographers collective, Generation Elili. Via Afrique in Visu.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsowLHE6f0Y We've plugged Fredy Massamba before. 'Ntoto' is taken from his album Ethnophony.
March 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg18qsycBk It's late already, but it is still March 6: Ghana Independence Day. Dutch rapper Kno'Ledge
Konfab's Lost Tapes
Pioneer Unit's on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection
The Women of Tahrir
http://vimeo.com/20554580 Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke’s film “Kengere” – using puppets – tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda’s civil war.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl6ZcSJ_KY Tidal Waves (the "hardest working band in South Africa" - they really are) played a
The Youth of Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_qL0IXdKQ Old Master Boubacar Traoré (also known as Kar Kar, “the one who dribbles too much”)
Bwana Kitoko
If you’re passing through Brussels the next months and you haven’t seen Belgian painter Luc Tuymans’s
True Blood or Sushi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV6e1HPxcY&w=500&h=307] S: What does this say about contemporary white Afrikaans speaking music culture? T: That Van
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBlOvNzXzQ Illa J, younger brother of J Dilla, teams up with Belgian producer Cris Prolific. February