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Moonshine Roots Music and Fela Kuti
Valerie June admires Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Miriam Makeba and a Nigerian blues singer she once heard in her car, but can't remember their name.
A window into South Africa’s jazz history
The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.
Weekend Music Break 61
Your weekly collection of new tunes and videos — this week from Zambia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali,
P-Square are Investigative Journalists
For a while now we’ve been toying with the idea of starting a Tumblr called “Shit
Weekend Music Break 60
Wherever the sun is in the sky, it’s the right time for new music. Here’s this
Weekend Music Break 59
Oddisee (real name: Amir Mohamed El Khalifa; he has a Sudanese dad) is on tour in
Boogie Down Nima in the Bronx
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
The Story of Cameroon’s First Metal Band
The mistake of directing the hardline scorn we reserve for say Madonna and Fox News at small independent filmmakers or young volunteers at NGO's in Africa.
Black Violin
Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste are the classically trained violin and viola playing duo that anchor Black Violin.
Weekend Music Break 58
Your weekly dose of 10 new music videos. First up, from Kenya, Muthoni The Drummer Queen’s
Representing Niger
Tal National's music is breezy, in all Niger's languages and about topics to which everyone can relate: love, peace, and the beauty of women.
Cape Town hip-hop got interesting again
The difference between Isaac Mutant and Die Antwoord is that Mutant is the real deal.
A postmodernist dark comedy
Kenneth Gyang's "Confusion Na Wa" and the growing desire for variety and novelty in Nigerian cinema.
Mozambique’s Pandza Music
A digital, more lo-fi interpretation of local Marrabenta mixed with dancehall and hip-hop, combined with a mid-tempo, laid-back vibe.
The African New Wave
Weekend Music Break Number 57 includes a tribute to Fela Kuti, music from Lesotho, and the fast rapping of Sarkodie.
Remembering Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima had the unique ability to strike first at your heart, not unlike the experience of hearing Billie Holiday for the first time.
Weekend Music Break: The Brother Moves On
I followed The Brother Moves On around South Africa once. True story, I even wrote about
Ghana’s Independence Era Through the Lens of S.K. Pobee
The photos below (click to enlarge), offering a glimpse into the joy and optimism of the
Weekend Music Break 56
Three South African videos to start with. Cape Town rapper Youngsta moves between the city’s neigbourhoods