Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
Ploughing through the blog’s archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for
Ploughing through the blog’s archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for

I finally got to see director Andrew Dosunmu’s debut feature film, “Restless City,” this summer (at the
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Mike Skinner playing keys in this “improvised” video for Ghostpoet makes perfect sense. The online

Two events in London this year focused on female filmmakers working in African cinema. This is
This list is partly self-indulgent. It is also a way–hopefully weekly–for me to keep an online

A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.

14-minute clip from a recent TV profile by Norwegian television of a visit by Somali novelist
Three Kenyan videos to remember today’s Independence Day. Three popular tunes for our Independence meme. A
In a recent video interview (first spotted on film blog Shadow and Act), Kenyan film director
We like stylish Rwandese-Brooklyn singer Iyadede‘s take (in French) on the Theophilus London song “Flying Overseas.”
This video for Raashan Ahmad left me wondering why I have never taken the train to

Zoo City is set in an alternate Johannesburg, where criminals or those who have serious moral failings, get landed with an animal familiar as a permanent attachment.

"Life Above All" has an unbelievable plot and heavy-handed social commentary, but Khomotso Manyaka's excellent performance and a strong supporting cast redeem it.
Brit-Ugandan singer Michael Kiwanuka (featured here before), who sounds like James Taylor, performs two of his

Why are certain kinds of war stories embraced by critics and go on to find an international audience, while other finely written stories do not?
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film “Atletu” (The

A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.

This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.

71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik’n) clearly had