France no longer has an excuse to hold on to African cultural heritage
The point of Senegal's new Museum of Black Civilations (Musée des civilisations noires) in Dakar.
Benin
Happy Africans
By 11am this morning Pharrell Williams’ pop friendly and infectious “Happy” had racked up 138,948,968 views
Interview: Abdellah Karroum and the Benin Biennale
We tracked down Abdellah Karroum in Paris, and asked him some questions about the Biennale Regard
Gérard Quenum’s dolls never die
An overarching master of narration, with bravery and delicacy steers his collected histories towards his own semantic ends, safely.
Paris is a Continent, N°5
Not sure what it says about France that Dominique Strauss-Kahn (he is portrayed as a victim of
Music Break
“A part James Brown, vive Poly-Rythmo!” Or, “James Brown aside, viva Poly-Rythmo. That’s what the youth
MUSIC BREAK / ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX21YIMBbPI&hl=en&fs=1&] Some bad 1970s West African funk courtesy of one of the continent’s craziest bands, Orchestre