
America? Begging in Nigeria!
A white woman begging in Lagos's popular Mushin Market. Turns out it is a performance piece.

A white woman begging in Lagos's popular Mushin Market. Turns out it is a performance piece.

Things I have read quickly, seen or watched, listened to, been forwarded, did not really have

British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on 'his own personal journey' to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.

The first group of people who called themselves Afrikaners were Orlams people, who would be called coloured in South Africa today.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6otC_a_ZY&w=480&h=295] The video for the first single, “Go Away,” off the album “Dark or Blue” by

FIFA and the South African organizers of the World Cup unveiled the official World Cup tune: It's called "Waka Waka."
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10636093 w=500&h=281] I want to see more of this film: The slam poet, Capela, is shown
[vodpod id=Video.3322857&w=450&h=370&fv=] Priceless footage of 1980s Community Arts Project in Durban, which, according to one of
An incendiary piece of video art, more like a short film–of raids, profiling and state terrorism–done

The poetry of Ronelda Kamfer sheds light on the still marginalized lives of South Africa’s “brown communities.”

An Evening with Shelley Barry Wednesday, April 28, 2o1o At the next disTHIS!, South African filmmaker

Marlene Dumas, the South African-born artist whose work is sought by important collectors, keeps a blacklist that prevents those she views as turning over her works too quickly from buying additional works by her and other news.
The brilliant rapper Guru, who also recorded as Gang Starr (with his music partner, the equally

Next week (April 26), Brooklyn’s Kon and Amir will release “Off Track Vol III: Brooklyn, ”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjddFpAp6z0&w=480&h=295] This blog does not waste any opportunities to post visuals of Mulatu Astatke performing. Via

I am tired of doing this. Because it is getting predictable. The top-heavy and scattered Tribeca

An ode to Busi Mhlongo, the South African singer, composer and danger.

White South African and Americans musicians have borrowed heavily and built a careers off the Maskandi music pioneered by working class musicians like Luthuli.

A lot of people, not just Nigerians or its media, are pleased with white South African photographer Pieter Hugo's portrayal of Nollywood.

There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.