Africa Unsigned
Africa Unsigned, an Amsterdam-based website uses crowd-funding–a method which allow people to pool their money online–to
500 Search Results for: Diaspora
Viva Kinshasa
…who have emigrated and the experience of alienation when returning to their hometown? I didn’t want
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhwKO7AIsc Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) – Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°2
…fine. Listen to Nigusu Tamrat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hek1SlQrnQ4 Almost as poppy, from the Ivorian diaspora comes this song
Music Break. YaoBobby ft. Fredy Massamba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIOwmypmwk There’s a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West
On Brand Nigeria
A quick read of comments to recent posts defending gay rights, point to how deep-seated and widespread homophobia is in Nigeria.
Pushing African music into the future
The Austria-based Ghanian singer, Anbuley, shows a willingness to jump on unconventional beats.
Introducing Angolan singer Aline Frazão
Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media's pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.
London calling … to the faraway towns of Somalia
…‘forgotten’, they were excluded. They were all excluded, from shopkeepers, like Faduma Aden Mohamud; Diaspora activists
Letter to the Republic
The duplicity of France's ruling classes preoccupy most of this week's entry - number 10 - of Paris Is a Comment.
Black Bazar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841i137-CYg Alain Mabanckou’s 2009 novel Black Bazar spoke successfully to and about the African diaspora in
The Branson Biennale for Morocco
…in Paris and New York’. Such goals are surely positive, as the ongoing debate into African
Mali’s coup—First Thoughts
A few things are worth saying about the mutiny and the coup that rocked Bamako over the last few days.
Mali’s Democracy–Down but not out
Is the adoption of a new constitution by Mali's military regime a starting point for getting the soldiers back under civilian rule? Let’s game this out a little bit.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°6
Mali’s on our mind. Mostly because of the confusion. Reports from Bamako abound, while there’s still
Coup d’Etat is the New Black
Military takeovers are happening so quickly and so fast in Africa, and instapundits need back facts. We are here to help. Here are some basic facts about Guinea-Bissau, site of the latest coup d'etat.