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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKFpx6zmYo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] “Après Tintin au Congo j’ai lu Sarkozy à Dakar / 50 minutes d’insultes… accusé à
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The constructions of whiteness in South Africa
The role documentary film in producing memory as it intersects with contemporary constructions of understanding apartheid and this post-apartheid period.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mld7eSaydI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Psychedelic funksters Sly and the Family Stone are making a comeback of sorts (although recent
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5s-FUbcE9o&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This is not really a music video I know, but it’s worth your time. Trust
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgAhDy41Vwk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] In this short video Portuguese singer Carmen Souza speaks about her third album “Protegid” (which
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In 1987, two years before the Congolese grand maître Franco died (although never substantiated, it is
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riYn1SozWo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The young Lagos, Nigeria-band Che and the Continuous Highlife Evolution’s striking “Civil War.” As the
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Last month, Mali’s trio SMOD (consisting of DJ Sam, Ousco and Donski) released a second single,
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNFRVmtz1GA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African artist Lesego Rampolokeng, who grew up in Soweto, performing his “Fela Sermon” live
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI&w=500&h307&rel=0] Yeh, we do politics even when we dancing. And we have a thing for David
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrQCRxD-u4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Rapper Young Kay is “a leader of the younger urban music scene in Malawi.” [via
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA23GnvAXWQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Yuri Da Cunha is a household name in Angola,and is on his way to becoming
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUxzYbQQSo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for “Fairy Tale” by South African-based Mozambican band, 340ml. The video was shot
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADTUDx8-Pbg&w=500&h=307&rel=o] Last Sunday against Chelsea, Sunderland’s Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan scored his team’s second goal on
Asa – Be My Man
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNUgJMDsOuY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] If you don’t notice the awkward “acting” at the outset of this music video and
Janka in America
The King of Bubu, Janka Nabay, translates this music and his culture for rock kids in the trendy hangouts of New York City.
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If you’re into house music (I can tolerate some of it) it’s worth listening to this
Bloody Agent*
We know Jacob Zuma can dance. But can Julius Malema, the future President of South Africa
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLtdHQeIZA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My 5-year old has known for quite a while–long before mainstream media caught onto it–that