
A Spaza Shop Job
Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.

Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.

The diverse histories and orientations of African pop, the diaspora, and its international dissemination and the speed with which culture travels now.

Paris burned in 2005 and it has been left smoldering since. That's the message of Paris Is a Continent, Number 9.

Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?

Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media's pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.


Nigerian D'Banj draws big crowds on the continent and regularly plays the diaspora circuit in cities like London. Next, pop stardom.