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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywfyv5fdgM4 Your Music Break: from Nairobi. Via Kate Bomz

Not sure whether Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, El Sueño del Celta (The Dream

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjyibxWzWkA&w=600&h=373] Your Music Break: Simphiwe Dana, live, singing in Xhosa, accompanied by another South African singer, Mthwakazi,

Maybe not the most popular artist in Benin today, but the country’s independence day is a

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jFThFnGTY&w=600&h=373] Last week in Bolinas, CA, my friend, Kora McNaughton (she lives in Santiago), got me

The oldest republic in Africa, Liberia–formed in 1847–celebrates its independence today.  Chances are Dumyarea, the song we

Music video for the Cape Town band, The Plastics. They worked with Gordon Raphael, who also produces

Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning in

The documentary “Dear Mandela,” about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban, South

South Africa’s first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between

Some rural flavor from Hambale, Zambia. Filmed by David Tree. H/T: Adrian Bischoff.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year’s Rwanda Film Festival going down

Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe doing