Buika is the best
Earlier this week I was at the launch of a friend’s excellent book about music piracy.
Culture
Freedom, youth and remembrance
In the documentary "Remembered Futures" the filmmakers interrogate the ways South Africans understand their own history and how this affects their futures.
Hillbrow invasion with @YoungstaCPT
Cape Town-based wordsmith Youngsta’s been in Johannesburg for a few weeks, here on a mission to build bridges and shake
What’s the word? Sister/woman have you heard from Manenberg?
To honor the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising, aka Youth Day, the Rock Girls are on
Badvertising and the Soweto Uprising
The worst crime of a new ad "celebrating" the martyrs of 1976 is the message does not accord with the realities of young black South Africans.
Weekend Music Break No.77
Weekend Music Break, your weekly round up of hot tunes and music news from around the
No exoticism, no promos, just the music
The Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for May 2015.
Swaziland’s Bushfire
The Southern African country, Swaziland, is an absolute monarchy characterized by widespread oppression. It also hosts the Bushfire Music Festival.
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
Time of the pathetic hero
Andrew Miller’s a Jozi-based freelance scribe. Years spent with a muscle disease have allowed the writer
Decolonizing the University
What to do with the universities South Africa inherited from the violences of Apartheid.
Weekend Music Break No.76
We took a break last week, but we’re back experimenting with a new format. This Weekend’s Music
Was the German composer Beethoven, African?
There's even an album to advance this argument: "Beethoven Was African: Polyrhythmic Piano Sonatas."
Cape Town is Three Countries: Curatorship in times of load shedding
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
The War Story We Need Right Now
The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.
The Afro-Anarchist’s Guide to Kendrick Lamar
On "To Pimp a Butterfly," is Kendrick being ironic when he wonders "How Much a Dollar Cost"?
Africa is a Country teams up with Coffebeans Routes to present a Cape Town concert series.
This month we will be kicking off a special partnership with Coffeebeans Routes to bring you a
Lucky Bastard
Osekre, whose music is a blend of Afrobeat and ska, on the trials and tribulations of being an African musician in New York City
In the time of xenophobia
The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.
Angolan Cinemas: Past and Present Tense
Cultural spaces and historic patrimony have not fared well during Angola's post-war reconstruction and development.