Weekend Music Break 44
Here’s your weekly round-up of new videos and tunes to get the weekend started. First up,
Here’s your weekly round-up of new videos and tunes to get the weekend started. First up,

It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.

Rick Ross has since deleted a tweet about landing "in the beautiful country of Africa." He deserved all the scorn. He's been to three African countries already and should know.

Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
It’s been far too long since we had a music break. So without too many words,

Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past

In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called "the African non-archive."

What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?

Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.

What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.

An Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, director of films like 'La Vie Sur Terre,' 'Rostov-Luanda,' 'Waiting for Happiness' and 'Bamako.'

That South Africa has a "Pro Twerk Team" may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.

Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's new film "Grigris" and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, among others.

The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country's other indigenous languages for use in higher education.

Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.
Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass (the Mozambican-Portuguese-Ghanaian-German duo who go by the name of Gato Preto)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is the creative debut feature of director Terence Nance who we
Many collaborations and surprise comebacks popped up in our feeds this week. First, this one by
Kicking off this week and running until the 26th of May, the fifth edition of Festival

Not sure what is empowering about a UK grime artist explicitly glorifying African conflict and capitalizing on the fear and violence that it entails.