'Three soldiers from Somalia'
I reread that infamous 2010 New Yorker profile. of Gil Scott Heron earlier today. I was
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'More Time'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL1rmcI-eY&w=560&h=349] Linton Kwesi Johnson exhorting us to slow down a bit.
Africa Day
The Very Best–a collaboration of Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit–has a new mixtape. It came out a few
Beyoncé and the Hyena
We're not sure what Beyonce is trying to say with her music video for her female empowerment song, "Run the World." You're guest is as good as ours.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgZEklDuF8 Some catchy, and barely tolerable, pop from JR–remember him from the kwaiti/dance hit ‘Make the
The first Afrikaans film at Cannes
Finally a teaser for the film “Skoonheid,” by Cape Town director, Oliver Hermanus, is now online.
When Thelonious Monk first met Dollar Brand
By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP's as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
Oh, Canada
Sean, AIAC's editor, reflects, in a drive-buy fashion, on Canada's travel rules and some reasons why Toronto is a great place to visit.
The Belgian Color Bar
The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.
Memoirs about Africa
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor–he’s written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe–and blogger, has a
Zim Ngqawana
Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a prominent figure in the second generation of South African jazz musicians, passed away on Monday.
Music Break
We’ve featured Dutch R&B singer, Ntjam Rosie, here before. We had to do it again.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbhplk5rljc With a nod to the 1990s, one of our favorites, DJ Premier, presents “A New
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
A sobering representation of the psychic scars that still haunt many Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.
Postapartheid Ideology
The video for “Go Getter,” by Johannesburg’s MB featuring Malika, which I saw playing once or
Mad Max in Botswana
Botswana has a thriving heavy metal scene. These metal heads have their own specific style too.
Magnificent
Earlier this week ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, including one for music during the 2010
Soccer Soap Opera
Who are the Kenyans who needed a soap opera as an impetus to change their attitudes about political violence and why did they need it?
Animal Farm
In Cape Town this January, Ken Salo invited Jessica and I to presentations by summer abroad
The Representation of Ghana
Could "Sakawa," a form of internet scamming popular in Ghana, be a means by which to make to sense of contemporary life there?