Music Break. Molare
Some fresh coupé-décalé from Molare.
Culture
The most influential African thinker
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
A Spaza Shop Job
Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.
The sound of Joburg label Iapetus
From Zetina Mosia’s upcoming album “The RoundAbout”, this track: ‘Lately’. We’ve said this before, but the
The Lagos preacher and the football final
Both Africa's infamous pastors as well as our staff predicted Zambia would win the African Cup of Nations Final. We're not sure who had the closer relationship to the gods.
Friday Music Bonus Edition
It’s a mixed bag this week. Kenyan artist Ato Malinda created a video for one of
Dabbling in the sublime
The 2012 edition of the Berlinale includes a number of films from Africa or with African themes.
Music Break. Kaba Blon
http://youtu.be/afO9RSfdVEA Thinking about Mbalax Dub, got me wanting to share some more of Kaba Blon. It
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Gaddafi spoof
The trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy, “The Dictator,” where he plays a thinly veiled
Yasiin Bey, ladies and gentlemen
The rapper formerly known as Mos Def’s take on the Jay Z track with his own
Azonto Germany
The diverse histories and orientations of African pop, the diaspora, and its international dissemination and the speed with which culture travels now.
An interview with the makers of ‘Quel Souvenir,’ a film about an oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon
Twelve years after ground was first broken on an oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon, the
Music Break. Jeri-Jeri
Berlin based Dub and Techno producer Mark Ernestus (check his previous work with Rhythm and Sound) fell
Serge Ibaka Has No Country
We don't blame people those who can't figure out their DRC from their ROC or their Kinshasa from their Brazzaville.
Film and Johannesburg’s Ponte City
The German writer Norman Ohler described Johannesburg’s Ponte City, Africa’s tallest residential building, thus: “Ponte sums
Rare: Conscious Kwaito
South African kwaito house with an explicit message: we don’t get to hear it often. Shota’s
Germany has a version of GQ magazine
A woman in Germany removes her clothes and poses for a magazine photographer with her famous
The Noise of Cairo
Last month the Daily Beast decided that Cairo had lost its voice. It reminded me of
The Presidential Palace
Paris burned in 2005 and it has been left smoldering since. That's the message of Paris Is a Continent, Number 9.
The Truth and Reconciliation Film
On the screen, South Africa's TRC has invariably been sensationalized into a showcase of trauma-as-entertainment.