Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
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Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don't Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
An archive for historian Jeff Guy (1940-2014)
…first Ph.D. student of the path-breaking South African historian Shula Marks in 1960s and 1970s London.
Your concepts of African belonging
The El Foukr R'Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Tunde Kelani
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.
Summertime Vibes
Hipsters Don't Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for February 2015.
Senegal’s “Mister 15%” Goes to Jail
Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president, is emblematic of how Abdoulaye Wade's family made the state their personal property.
Paralyzed with Fear of the Past
J.M. Coetzee wondered in the late 1980s what price white South Africans are willing to pay for fraternity with Black South Africans.
Maboneng is on fire
David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.
What’s at stake when Ethiopians vote on May 24th
…opposing Addis Ababa’s expansion into surrounding Oromia towns touched off a deadly standoff with security forces,
New African Disco
Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for April 2015.
Weekend Music Break No.72
…nice London-shot video for her uptempo dance track “Oba”: Nigerien Afro-Rock group Tal National released an
Whip it Good
The Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back.
New Ways of Seeing The World
An interview with director Tala Hadid and producer Danny Glover of "A Narrow Frame of Midnight," set amidst political turmoil in Morocco.
The limits of debunking only the pseudoscience of race
What a very white book launch in a very black neighborhood in downtown Johannesburg reveals.
Why am I insulted when people mistake me for a samba dancer?
…or Maida Vale in London, or Sandton in South Africa, I should be able to see
The War Story We Need Right Now
The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.
Cape Town is Three Countries: Curatorship in times of load shedding
…lives and works in Berlin… born in Kenya, lives in London..”. Becker’s return to Cape Town
Was the German composer Beethoven, African?
There's even an album to advance this argument: "Beethoven Was African: Polyrhythmic Piano Sonatas."
Blood dripping from his head
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.