http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahwth3qxnig The video for South African hip hop head Khuli Chana’s ‘Tswa Daar’ comes with a

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.”

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.

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