Snoop Dogg's Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwrpX3wMD2o The music video for a new song by Nigerian rapper/R&B singer D’Banj featuring Snoop Dogg
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http://vimeo.com/19132287 Video of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra performing live January 21, 2011, in New York City.
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Cape Town/Atlanta singer Lindiwe Suttle and Abbot Network, performing “Sweet like Butta,” for the online Taxijam
Deep Roots Malawi
Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary. I
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here’s Moody in 1989–live with Dizzy
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[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing “Music Man” on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977.
'We All Shall Be Free'
Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and M-1
On the Road with Ebo Taylor
Following the release of “Love and Death”, Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days. Although
My Brother's Keeper
http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his ‘Lost for Words’, recorded in Harare
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCjZ6gThyY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana‘s “El Juidero,” the title track of
"A Day in Somi's World"
Dutch website profiles Harlem-based singer Somi (of Rwandan and Ugadan descent, raised in downstate Illinois).
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7-T50Lr3A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Salif Keita performs his standard “Folon” live on Dutch TV in March 2010.
Swahili Cipher
African Hip Hop has been the number one hop site and radio show about hip hop culture on the continent for a few years.
This is Africa: Sudanese TV in Dubai Edition
Sudan's vast diaspora in the Gulf reflected in media available via satellite in Dubai.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yl5LaocojO4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The music video for “Die Heuwels Fantasies” by South African (Afrikaans) band, Noorderlig. I am
Music Break: Gugulethu’s rooftops
You’ll rarely see local rap artists, especially ones from Cape Town, on South African music video channels. But not if Driemanskap had anything to do with it.
Music Break. Simphiwe Dana
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829dg3GN7aM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Does it matter whether we know where a music video was shot? Probably not, but
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The guys from Fresk have opinions, but we will go into that another day. Until then,
Do you need another rap film?
Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?
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Femi Kuti and his band strip it down for La Blogothèque, some hours before they got