Bring the Beat Home
The documentary, "Soul Power," captures a moment in African-American music during the 1970s: testing its boundaries in Kinshasa, Zaire.
The documentary, "Soul Power," captures a moment in African-American music during the 1970s: testing its boundaries in Kinshasa, Zaire.
This music video for Big Frizzle’s ‘All Black Everything’, produced by London-based media house GlobalFaction made
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from
The text that comes with Agata Pietron’s photographs of youth in Kiwanja and Rutshuru (North Kivu,
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."
Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.
Spanish media is skittish about reporting their country's discriminatory immigration policy. If they do, they mainly cover its positive exceptions.
The 2012 edition of the Berlinale includes a number of films from Africa or with African themes.
Congolese artists Konono N°1 and Baloji collaborated by merging “traditional” sounds from Africa's biggest country with hip hop.
Ploughing through the blog’s archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for
For all the huffing and puffing in the West about the DRC’s cooked elections — President
Over the past week, it was hard to find an article published in a major international
Remember Brussels artist Badi (BD Banx on the Héritage project or his Beasty Boys-styled video ‘Jump’)?
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over
One of the most exciting films to come out of the continent recently is the Congolese
Tupac Shakur's intensity did not just appeal to just young people in the United States, but also on the continent.
Not sure whether Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, El Sueño del Celta (The Dream
Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe doing