
Summer in Paris
In what may be the last in a while of my posts highlighting the latest in French music culture, here's a list of tunes for the northern summer.

In what may be the last in a while of my posts highlighting the latest in French music culture, here's a list of tunes for the northern summer.

For our traveling readers , here are a list of Africa-related exhibitions and readings this summer taking place in a wide range of cities around the world.

The pick of summer 2012's shows and parties in New York City.

Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from

Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.

Kunene’s compositions don’t necessarily have a benchmark to conform to, but instead reveal the continuous state of transcendence his music takes.
Above is how people keep warm in Johannesburg winters. And below is what you hope to

Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.

Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.

Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.

A part of Harlem's ballroom scene gets a makeover and a much needed funding injection and international exposure.

The songs that savor the writer Olufemi Terry's travels through the islands of Cape Verde.

Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.
Fofo-born Shokanti released a video this week in celebration of Cape Verdean Independence (slipping in those

White Euro-Americans are drawn to Sub Saharan Africa by an urge to explore, do good or by a more existential desire for an encounter with radical difference.

Artists wanted to comment on the political struggles and religious undercurrents roughing up Tunisian society. Religious zealots, backed by the state, shut them down.

As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.
Quite the mixed bag this week. ‘Disco Malapaa’ by Arusha’s Jambo Squad above; nine more below.

This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.