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Corporations have tried and succeeded in cashing in on the political revolutions known as the "Arab Spring." Tunisia is the latest victim.
Corporations have tried and succeeded in cashing in on the political revolutions known as the "Arab Spring." Tunisia is the latest victim.
Zahara has become the top pop artist in South Africa in a fairly short time but
Paul Simon's Graceland album and tour defied the cultural boycott, yet some argue it positively influenced South African music and politics in the late 1980s.
http://youtu.be/YXI1kUk6Uqk Two music related Kickstarter campaigns deserve your attention.
Let’s do a Friday Diaspora edition. There are some half-baked attempts at linking the videos in
A Belgian organization (backed by a smart advertising agency) “is calling on unborn babies in Belgium,
Ethiopia forcibly relocates rural populations, often at gunpoint and never with any consultation, so the land can become "more productive."
The latest entrant to our series where we ask photographers to talk to us about their five favorite images, is Glenna Gordon.
Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.
Before he died, most Americans had very negative views of Martin Luther King Jnr., or were ignorant about his aims. They still are.
In the wake of January 2011, art is not yet able to understand the exemplary demography of the Egyptian people.
Rock music has been popular in Angola since the late colonial period and forms part of a complex urban soundscape in the country.
A series of public portraits by the young French-Algerian artist Bilel Kaltoun honors the martyrs of Tunisia's revolution.
Pitchom, Batida, Vieux Farka Toure, P-Unit, Sauti Sol and Tinariwen comprise our weekly Music Break.
Nas gets caught up in a musical scandal in Angola. Not how he wanted to make a connection to the continent.
Throwback: What happened when Trevor Noah made his debut on American network TV.
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
What is with the increasing use of sci-fi and horror elements in fairly recent music videos and films by African artists.
Some journalism and "analysis" about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.