Arab Women Filmmakers in Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1IHGKPoQg ‘A Game’ is a short fiction film from 2010 by Sudanese director Marwa Zein, based
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How to make a movie about Muslims
The South African comedy drama, "Material," portrays Muslims and Islam without resorting to the regular comedic clichés and slapstick.
Bilingual MC’s
On ‘Super Mc’, a group of rappers (Omar Offendum, Lou Piensa, Ceschi, Jarabe Del Sol, M.O.A,
Music Break. Vincent Segal & Ballaké Sissoko
French cellist Vincent Segal and kora master Ballaké Sissoko (from Mali) recorded the 2009 ‘Chamber Music’
The Ungovernables
It seems rather arbitrary to pick out the African artists from ‘The Ungovernables’, the New Museum’s
Tuareg Nationalism
A quick survey of Western media suggests Tuareg nationalist claims don’t carry the same weight as
London calling … to the faraway towns of Somalia
Talk about efficiency, how’s this for a developmental scheme. First, encourage, both directly and by ‘principled
Reverse Colonization
How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.
Music Break. Molare
Some fresh coupé-décalé from Molare.
A Spaza Shop Job
Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.
The sound of Joburg label Iapetus
From Zetina Mosia’s upcoming album “The RoundAbout”, this track: ‘Lately’. We’ve said this before, but the
Friday Music Bonus Edition
It’s a mixed bag this week. Kenyan artist Ato Malinda created a video for one of
Rare: Conscious Kwaito
South African kwaito house with an explicit message: we don’t get to hear it often. Shota’s
Germany has a version of GQ magazine
A woman in Germany removes her clothes and poses for a magazine photographer with her famous
The Truth and Reconciliation Film
On the screen, South Africa's TRC has invariably been sensationalized into a showcase of trauma-as-entertainment.
Sindiso Nyoni’s Riot Art
Short recent video profile by VOA’s Nico Colombant of the Zimbabwean artist, illustrator and designer R!OT
Do people believe ex-prisoners can change their ways?
That was the question asked to people in Cape Town, South Africa, by the Prison Broadcasting
The Tour of Rwanda
A series by photographer Mjrka Boensch Bees about the 2011 cycling tour in Rwanda. (Remember Philip
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
The fragmentary character of memory
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.