Tumi's Tête Savante
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on
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Africa and contemporary art
I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term
'See me on television' (in Lesotho)
From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs’s ‘Hona Joale’, recorded in the city
Music Break. Kouyaté-Neerman
We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
The afterlife of African studio photography
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,
The Northern Ireland Connection
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.
Doctor Mac
This is number 4 in the music break series, Paris is a Continent.
I Remember Black Pete
Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe's Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.
Global Genre Accumulation
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.
Batsumi's cascade of sound
By Dan Magaziner* South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy. From
Fathers, men and brothers
The third in my series of musical breaks from Paris, France, features L'Algerino, Nessbeal, Corneille and La Fouine.
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°2
An eclectic one. Ethiopian and Ivorian pop, Philly neo soul, Swedish and South African rap and
Black France
The presence of black people in France spans the last three centuries.
Music Break. YaoBobby ft. Fredy Massamba
There’s a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West African
Anton Kannemeyer’s Africa
How meanings, symbolism, and narratives of “other” places and products shift when contextualized within and against South Africa.
Music Break. Rattex
Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town’s Long Street, the
TV Heads
‘Kichwateli’ (‘TV head’ < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project. Contributors
Ingerland, Ingerland, Ingerland
Late last month the English goalkeeper David James wrote in The Observer that he was surprised
Demba Ba
Demba Ba has a habit of falling to his knees post-goal and praying.
Music Break. Fatima Al Qadiri
Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised musician and artist Fatima Al Qadiri just premiered her new EP, “Genre-Specific Xperience,” in