Music Break. Khuli Chana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahwth3qxnig The video for South African hip hop head Khuli Chana’s ‘Tswa Daar’ comes with a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahwth3qxnig The video for South African hip hop head Khuli Chana’s ‘Tswa Daar’ comes with a
The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.
Our weekly round-up of new (and a little less new) music videos. First, this great video
The Northern Nigeria repping White Nigerian (isn’t he Lebanese Nigerian?), along with JJC, invites us all
The new video for the song “Alf Hilat” by Moroccan lute player and singer Aziz Sahmaoui
I was in Dubai recently, working on a documentary, and on the way back to Cape
We didn’t expect anything else: the video for FOKN Bois “Sexin Islamic Girls” goes all the
DRC born, France based Gasandji‘s “Na lingui yo.”
The duplicity of France's ruling classes preoccupy most of this week's entry - number 10 - of Paris Is a Comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841i137-CYg Alain Mabanckou’s 2009 novel Black Bazar spoke successfully to and about the African diaspora in
Niagass comments on Senegal’s president Wade’s running for another term: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqsCXR_l5o We’ve been listening to Robert
On ‘Super Mc’, a group of rappers (Omar Offendum, Lou Piensa, Ceschi, Jarabe Del Sol, M.O.A,
An older Cabo Snoop tune (kuduristas in Angola and elsewhere have been dancing to ‘Zagala’ since
French cellist Vincent Segal and kora master Ballaké Sissoko (from Mali) recorded the 2009 ‘Chamber Music’
Some fresh coupé-décalé from Molare.
Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.
From Zetina Mosia’s upcoming album “The RoundAbout”, this track: ‘Lately’. We’ve said this before, but the
It’s a mixed bag this week. Kenyan artist Ato Malinda created a video for one of
http://youtu.be/afO9RSfdVEA Thinking about Mbalax Dub, got me wanting to share some more of Kaba Blon. It
The rapper formerly known as Mos Def’s take on the Jay Z track with his own