Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe.  In this hilarious video

Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over Cape

A lot of music we like don’t come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue Fever,

Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) – Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording artist

These guys remind me of Sunday afternoons at my great aunt’s house in Parkwood.

How do Africans–ground zero for resource extraction by the world’s 1%–feel about the now global ‘Occupy’

Nice work by Tanzanian crew X Plastaz, with some help of Fid Q, Bamba Nazar and

I have a student (born in Texas) who insists he won’t travel to or through Mississippi

Malian rapper Mokobe ripped into French perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain’s comments about “hard working blacks” in his

The always reliable Billy Bragg live on the streets of Dublin this past weekend.

That’s today. Other than Chiluba’s shoes, Sata’s anti-China rants (he’s stopped for now), Alexandra Fuller’s books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJ-DCMBKKI It seems that the election atmosphere remains tense, but word from Liberia is people are taking

Ethiopian pop from this past summer. Sayat Demissie is a former beauty queen. Her decision to

Ghostpoet (government name: Obaro Ejimiwe) raps “in the bluesy, introspective tradition of Tricky and Roots Manuva”. The

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcQKYdWKoY Cameroon (‘Kamer’) hip hop is churning out lots of videos lately. Like this one by

Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated their