[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADTUDx8-Pbg&w=500&h=307&rel=o] Last Sunday against Chelsea, Sunderland’s Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan scored his team’s second goal on

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNUgJMDsOuY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] If you don’t notice the awkward “acting” at the outset of this music video and

If you’re into house music (I can tolerate some of it) it’s worth listening to this

We know Jacob Zuma can dance. But can Julius Malema, the future President of South Africa

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLtdHQeIZA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My 5-year old has known for quite a while–long before mainstream media caught onto it–that

If you have seen the 1987 movie La Vie est Belle (Life is Rosy), you probably

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Though “Blessa,” the latest single from the Carolina singer Toro Y Moi ((government name: Chad Bundick) is

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX6vbHWUyhQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the remix of the song “Champion,” the tune by Nigerian reggae fusion

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg4nu5C-SI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This is hipster stuff you can dance to at least. “Boomslang” (literally tree snake) by

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6hPuui-l8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Next Tuesday (September 28th)  and Wednesday (September 29th) London jazz group Portico Quartet–their sound has

“Days of Fire” by Nitin Sawhney featuring Natty (his mother is from Lesotho, btw) performed in

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWFUXYqFUU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Spoek Mathambo, the part-time Johannesburg-based “… Post-Apartheid, Post-Hip Hop Posterboy,” is interviewed by BSTV during

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mHMWO_-mM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Nigerian superstars P-Square doing “Do Me.” This is not your average world music band.

I first saw this video this summer when it was posted online. I love the swing

I don’t care much for Cape Town group Freshlyground’s muzak. But you can’t deny the cleverness