Friday Music Break, N°10
British based Nigerian rapper Modenine starts off our weekly Friday Music Break. Here’s four more.
British based Nigerian rapper Modenine starts off our weekly Friday Music Break. Here’s four more.

Numbi, a gathering space for the Somali diaspora artists in the UK, expands its focus to include poetry and music from elsewhere in East Africa and elsewhere at a showcase in East London.
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an

The DJ's, Venus X and Boima, talk about their approach to music, but also about their run-ins with tastemaker Diplo, who has shaped popular music tastes globally.

“Coca-Cola Bird” stands facing the corner of the gallery, half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition,

Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.

What is it with the conviction, held primarily in the West, that you can save yourself and the world (well, usually Africans) by shopping?

Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."
We thought it would be nice to compile a Bonus Music Break centered on acoustic guitar
Latin America and the Caribbean haven’t gotten enough attention on this site. We’re going to intentionally

Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.

Old Oshodi highlighted the complexity of the city, showcasing the ingenuity of the people of Lagos in their use of the informal market in making a living.

Reading Yewande Omotoso's novel "Bom Boy," just when you think you’ve figured the characters out, the author opens them up a little more, and our perceptions change.

A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.

We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.
Congolese/South African (via Belgium) musician Yannick Ilunga, AKA Iamwaves, has been rather busy lately. His group

A remarkable amount of new films in recent months have used migration, detention and illegal sea crossings as their subject matter.

The film, "Come Back, Africa," first released in 1959, challenged how white liberals imagined black people or tried to shape their struggles in South Africa.
Your weekly #musicbreak roundup. Mokobe and Oumou Sangare pray for peace in Mali:

Since 2004, Le Salon africain (part of the annual Geneva Book Fair) awards the Ahmadou Kourouma