A fast train from Dakar
Young Philippe Ndour is the nephew of Senegalese pop star Youssou Ndour. And just like his uncle
Young Philippe Ndour is the nephew of Senegalese pop star Youssou Ndour. And just like his uncle

We want to step off #Kony2012 (we promise to lay off them by this weekend), but

Zachary Rosen, a former Peace Corps official, describes his favorite photographs to us.

Oprah, like Kristof, turns a personal desire to help sufferers of abuse into a more than acceptable African development program.
Kefee (from Nigeria) and Becca (from Ghana) bring their version of ‘Dan Maliyo’. Pop and play

A number of comedy videos lampooning Kony 2012 are making the rounds on social media. Some are funny, some are asinine.

It has come to this. Musicians, especially rappers, had to wade in on the American social media campaign to "Make Kony Famous."
In this video, about a week old, American R&B singer Ne-Yo (if you don’t know who

Actor Djimon Hounsou doesn't take his own advice about the media he makes about Africa.

Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces - at times on par with some of Bob Dylan's work - but he was only famous in South Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahwth3qxnig The video for South African hip hop head Khuli Chana’s ‘Tswa Daar’ comes with a

The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.

A quick review of films showing at two festivals with a focus on gay people: The Out in Africa Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Our weekly round-up of new (and a little less new) music videos. First, this great video

Writing gays and lesbians into the political and social history of South Africa – a history from which LGBT people are so often obscured and ignored.

Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they're exclusively white.

The Northern Nigeria repping White Nigerian (isn’t he Lebanese Nigerian?), along with JJC, invites us all
Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes, film editors at Brooklyn Rail, write about the documentary film “Imagining
The new video for the song “Alf Hilat” by Moroccan lute player and singer Aziz Sahmaoui
The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness