
Unexpected Connections
When you're surprised by the links between Afro-Peruvian roots-electronic music and Kuduro-Kizomba from Angola.

When you're surprised by the links between Afro-Peruvian roots-electronic music and Kuduro-Kizomba from Angola.

You’ll rarely see local rap artists, especially ones from Cape Town, on South African music video channels. But not if Driemanskap had anything to do with it.

Students in my Media and Africa seminar at The New School create short video profiles of African immigrant experiences in New York City. Here I highlight a few of the striking ones.

Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?

The role documentary film in producing memory as it intersects with contemporary constructions of understanding apartheid and this post-apartheid period.


Meta and the Corningstones: a humble and talented African-born reggae singer whose message is clear and sincere.

Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.

The campaign is accompanied by print ads featuring celebrities in coffins to represent their digital deaths. Can this stop, please?