Tumi's Tête Savante
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on

I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term
From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs’s ‘Hona Joale’, recorded in the city
We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,

A new film challenges the “rainbow nation” narrative, highlighting South Africa's unfulfilled transformation. It involves local filmmakers, with 10% of profits supporting Cape Town's activists.

This is number 4 in the music break series, Paris is a Continent.

Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe's Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.

If there's an underground dance scene or marginalized community nearby, Diplo or some DJ like him has or probably will "discover," re-frame, and sell it to audiences in another part of the world.
By Dan Magaziner* South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy. From

The third in my series of musical breaks from Paris, France, features L'Algerino, Nessbeal, Corneille and La Fouine.
An eclectic one. Ethiopian and Ivorian pop, Philly neo soul, Swedish and South African rap and

The presence of black people in France spans the last three centuries.
There’s a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West African

How meanings, symbolism, and narratives of “other” places and products shift when contextualized within and against South Africa.
Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town’s Long Street, the
‘Kichwateli’ (‘TV head’ < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project. Contributors

Late last month the English goalkeeper David James wrote in The Observer that he was surprised

Demba Ba has a habit of falling to his knees post-goal and praying.
Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised musician and artist Fatima Al Qadiri just premiered her new EP, “Genre-Specific Xperience,” in