Necessary doses of pan-Africanism: Esperanza Spalding’s “Black Gold”
It’s not too late to take your vitamins. And this. Jazz bass player and bandleader Esperanza
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Sindiso Nyoni’s Riot Art
Short recent video profile by VOA’s Nico Colombant of the Zimbabwean artist, illustrator and designer R!OT
The Jews of Morocco
An interview with documentary photograpter, Aaron Elkaim, who explores the remains of Morocco's Jewish communities.
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
Friday Music Bonus Edition
So drawn into the video (a plethora of faces, personalities and historic moments) Atlanta trio Algiers
The fragmentary character of memory
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Documenting Tuberculosis
In 2009, 1.7 million people died from TB globally, including 380,000 people living with HIV. The majority of deaths were in Africa.
Nelson Mandela (Hollywood; plural)
Rumours are circulating on various Hollywood gossip and film blogs that Stringer Bell also known as
The confused lens of memory and trauma
The Rwandan film, "Grey Matter," is part of prestigious traveling film exhibition, the Global Film Initiative.
January in Cairo IV: the two faces of Egyptian art
Om Kalthoum, the late great Egyptian singer, stands in the studio of Khaled Hafez. Her eyes are
Music Break. Sababu
Belgian band Zita Swoon, world-famous in their own country –I’m biased– recorded an easy listening album
The Whitney Soundtrack
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?
Introducing Angolan singer Aline Frazão
Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media's pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.
Everybody wants in on the final
Some coupe decale to warm you up for the African Cup of Nations final later today
Music Break. King Mensah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENNr_Mw2hNs Some mellow Togolese sounds and a sunny video.
Surfer dude
Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa, though
50 Cent goes to Somalia
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to
One shot project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8DqXwojm68 This is Hache. Oh, and the DJ. And that’s your music break.
Africa’s first 21st century global pop star?
Nigerian D'Banj draws big crowds on the continent and regularly plays the diaspora circuit in cities like London. Next, pop stardom.
In Praise of Mohamed Aboutrika
Aboutrika is the ‘superman’ of Egypt’s football, probably the best African to never play professionally in Europe and a political leader.