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Weekend Music Break No.72
Kicking things off this week, South Africa’s BoysnBucks collective show off their “Umswenko” in a new
New African Disco
Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for April 2015.
Testing the fitness of our own instincts
The Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma talks to American photographer and teacher, Eric Gottesman, about his work in Ethiopia.
How Nollywood can save African Literature
African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.
The romanticism of history
The resistance legacy of Brazilian slaves suffers from both romanticism and a spotty historical record. But it also persists as a potent social and cultural symbol.
Weekend Music Break No.71
Boima is on vacation this week, so the rest of us scanned the music pages. We
Digital Matatus
For the past couple of months, I’ve only been able to get out posts on a
The necessity to manifest our own experiences
An interview with the director of the first-ever feature-length film in Quechua, spoken by many of the indigenous people of the South American Andes.
Weekend Music Break No.70
The Weekend Music break is here! Check out a round up of tunes and visuals that caught
Fresh Eyes: KB Mpofu’s moments of intimacy
We head to Zimbabwe for the continuation of our Fresh Eyes series. Based in Bulawayo, KB
The Nile Project
Uniting a region - the music of eleven countries - and overcoming ‘World Music’ cliches.
This brand of non-racialism is no better than denial
A review of a documentary film about the life of Albie Sachs, a noted antiapartheid activist and later Supreme Court Judge in postapartheid South Africa.
Three separate films
'Virunga' is an important film, even if it lacks perspectives from local stakeholders.
Weekend Music Break No.69
A general round-up of tunes that caught our ear this week at Africa is a Country,
Bands That Groove
Danny Mekonnen of Debo Band previews the Aputumpu Festival in Boston.
Nigerian Nostalgia
Nigeria has gotten a lot of attention on this platform in the past few weeks, with
An Unflinching Take on Albino Killings in Tanzania
White Shadow, a feature film directed by Noaz Deshe and executive produced by the actor Ryan
The Aliens Have Already Landed
A survey of African and Afro-Diasporic science fiction; stories that pushes the boundaries of the genre.
A Postmodern Bricolage
What we learn from the film “Concerning Violence,” about Franz Fanon’s writings and ideas