The Beautiful Game
Correction: You don’t have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English Premier
Correction: You don’t have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English Premier

We’re allowed to talk about the 2010 World Cup until 2014. Later today our man, historian

Spoek Mathambo's whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxZvvETnPE Not sure what to make of the video. The video was filmed “in Africa.” Kage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTtUqxklzs Another of those pending posts. The video for “Flying High” for the British rapper Chipmunk

The artist Dawn Okoro (take the link to her blog) on her most recent work: I’ve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7boL1EkW7M Mos Def, “Umi Says,” Live at the Austin City Limits Festival 2009.

This was for the cover art of one of his comedy albums: "The cover looked totally real, like a cover of National Geographic."
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbSVS0AmtA] I’ve been wanting to post for a while now about the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Primarily

British filmmaker John Akonfrah will be artist-in-residence this Spring at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.

Thanks to HavePlentyMusic I saw that big time house producers experimenting with Kuduro for a few

Our man Teju Cole’s novel “Open City,” set in post-9/11 New York City, is doing better
Pioneer Unit’s on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection
Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read her

Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his

Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
The music video for the remix of Brooklyn rock singer Tamar Kali’s “Pearl” featuring the rapper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhzd1vgtBk Time to promote some continental filmmakers again. The young ones. The organizers of Design Indaba,
[vodpod id=Video.5675225&w=500&h=411&fv=] Amoeba is a landmark record store in Berkeley (on Telegraph). Now they have branches