Latest episode of Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s ‘My Song’ series features politically engaged Senegalese rappers
Fed up with what a group of young Senegalese describe as the state of mind of
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My barber loves these tunes
Hipsters Don't Dance 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for October 2014.
The Afrobarometer
Inaugurating our series on digital African projects. We'll document projects working to make more resources about Africa’s past and present available online.
How to be an expatriate in Nigeria
Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Dani Kouyaté
In 1995 filmmaker and griot Dani Kouyaté won the Golden Stallion – The award for Best
Children’s Books African Kids Could Relate To
While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.
South African Hip Hop Series: Producer Brian Soko
Brian Soko is not a happy man! Not only is he having to deal with the
The Dookoom Debate
What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?
South African Hip Hop Series: Video Profile On Rapper Sam Turpin
“The thing about Joburg,” observes rapper and producer Sam Turpin “it’s kind of on the scale
Pan-African fashion that rejects “social entrepreneurship”
Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.
Dookoom Rises Up
A Cape Town hip hop group causes a huge stir with its music video "Larney Jou Poes" (roughly translated: Boss, your cunt.) depicting an uprising by farmworkers.
South African Hip Hop Series: Thoughts On The Late Rapper Mizchif
I was home alone one Friday night around 2001 watching, as was tradition, one of the
Dakar booms with life
The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."
Ali Mazrui and Me
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.
Ebola: Where we are; where we should be
Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?
How do we talk about the memory of Apartheid
The fact that the choices for black people under Apartheid were either martyrdom or compromise was part of the injustice of that system.
#SAHipHop2014: Rapper Flex Boogie Live At Fingo Festival
As member of the hip-hop quartet Ba4za, Hakeem Lesolang presided over one of the most fertile
Is DJ Lewis’s “Stop Ebola” his “Grippe Aviaire” pt. 2?
DJ Lewis recently released a “Stop Ebola” song and video that reminds me of “Grippe Aviaire”, a song
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jahmil Qubeka
The filmmaker considers himself to be a filmmaker who happens to be African: He is driven by the art of storytelling; so his context is African but his film language is global.