Real World Records has just released (this past Monday) the new album “In Trance” by JuJu,

Johannesburg-based Tumi of Tumi and The Volume has released a mixtape. It seems to be in

“The Minister of Finance,” one of a series of over the top, mock portraits by Zimbabwean-born,

The video for “All the Same” by Vieux Farka Toure, son of Ali, from his new

I first saw Kesivan Naidoo play at the Independent Armchair Theater in Observatory. I was living

Interesting concept. “Every issue AFAR Magazine chooses a destination at random – by literally spinning a

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0nq5nGvPU&w=560&h=349] As a bonus, see also the 10-minute video for “Clap” also off “W.A.R.,” below. This

Over the course of fifteen years (1994-2009), Elke Zuern has interviewed civic and social movement leaders,

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/24394476 w=580&h=324] The new music video for “Drip Dry” by the Johannesburg hipsters Dirty Paraffin. The

The trailer for the feature film “Short Cut” (to be directed by Norman Maake) about the

I don’t know much about South African musician Fifi the Rai Blaster but I like this

I recently missed out on seeing a special screening (at BAM in Brooklyn) of “Restless City,”

Vanity Fair’s June issue has a profile. of Hillary Clinton. It contains tons of information about

Mayer Hawthorne featuring guitarist Dennis Coffey.