Not Nollywood
An Interview with Nigerian Filmmaker Tunde Kelani.
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Weekend Music Break 59
…dates here. He also has a new video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Snh2NZHhk Zimbabwe-born, South London-raised Eska Mtungwazi gives
Weekend Music Break 61
…up with London azonto stars FuseODG. The video was directed by Moe Musa (check his YouTube
King of Soukous
An Adieu to Tabu Ley Rochereau, the master rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A Brief Cinematic Guide to ‘Mother of George’
The film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the questions and limits of what one will do for love, told by an unorthodox filmmaker.
Windhoek characters
Netta Kornberg watch film trailers so you don't have to: This time, Namibian short films are the focus of her #TrailerTakedown.
South African Jazz for Nelson Mandela
A playlist of jazz tunes dedicated to South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.
The Mandela Legacy
Lighting candles amid the growing memorial of flowers outside South Africa House on London’s Trafalgar Square
Somali first, Muslim second, gay third
The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.
File Under: Mahmood Mamdani on South Africa’s much vaunted Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Political scientist Mahmood Mamdani disagrees with RW Johnson (remember him?) about the South African TRC; Johnson
I am a homosexual, mum
A lost chapter from Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," dated 11 July, 2000, the day his mother passed away.
The “Apartheid-era Robin Hood”
…Smith concluded in the London Review of Books recently: “If any one person can stand in
The day South African news media ate crow
How South Africa's media report on the doings within the official parliamentary opposition, the Democratic Alliance.
Give that man a Bells
…less striking and more conventional ads, including one for sports channel Supersport featuring the hilarious dad
How to deal with uncomfortable journalists
If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There's no comeback when you bring race into it.
The most important public intellectual of the last 50 years
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
Before And After The Disco
The self-titled debut album of Ibibio Sound Machine, features songs mostly in the southern Nigerian language of lead vocalist, Eno Williams.
Notes from the Native Yards
Cape Town hip hop duo, Ill Skillz's music documents their musical joy-ride through the good, the bad, and the nostalgic.
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.
Street Life in an African City: Oxford Street in Accra
…been nervous of wantonly connecting Oxford Street in my mind to places in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Johannesburg,