Children of Kinshasa
If you have seen the 1987 movie La Vie est Belle (Life is Rosy), you probably
Music
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Though “Blessa,” the latest single from the Carolina singer Toro Y Moi ((government name: Chad Bundick) is
Die Antwoord is Badass
Die Antwoord's magnetism (or repulsion) lies in the way they combine clichés about race with those of gender and sexuality.
Black Atlantic Identity Politics
Two years later, Barack Obama's election as US President still influence cultural production on the continent.
Music Wednesdays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX6vbHWUyhQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the remix of the song “Champion,” the tune by Nigerian reggae fusion
Manifest Destiny
It is through popular culture that the initial connections with homeland and diaspora will begin to make an impact on the consciousness of younger generations of Africans.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg4nu5C-SI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This is hipster stuff you can dance to at least. “Boomslang” (literally tree snake) by
Portico Quartet
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6hPuui-l8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Next Tuesday (September 28th) and Wednesday (September 29th) London jazz group Portico Quartet–their sound has
Music Break
“Days of Fire” by Nitin Sawhney featuring Natty (his mother is from Lesotho, btw) performed in
Spoek Comes to New York City
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWFUXYqFUU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Spoek Mathambo, the part-time Johannesburg-based “… Post-Apartheid, Post-Hip Hop Posterboy,” is interviewed by BSTV during
African 'World Music'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mHMWO_-mM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Nigerian superstars P-Square doing “Do Me.” This is not your average world music band.
'Someday We’ll All Be Free'
I first saw this video this summer when it was posted online. I love the swing
Mugabe’s a Chicken
I don’t care much for Cape Town group Freshlyground’s muzak. But you can’t deny the cleverness
The Good Life
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/12812385 w=500&h=281] The promo for South African-US duo Blk Sonshine‘s latest release.
Our People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mPUpojd84&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This past summer at least three prominent figures of the Cape Town jazz scene–the saxophone
Music Mondays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SK_Z_LGEac&w=500&h=301&rel=0] These guys are obsessed with the elements. The band is named for the cold current
Simphiwe Dana Speaks
Simphiwe Dana is probably the most talented female singer of her generation from South Africa. (Thandiswa
The Pan African Space Station
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dydtXJ94CE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Detroit DJ and producer, Theo Parrish, is one of the artists slated to appear at the
Music Break
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/14091396 w=500&h=281] The debut music video from Nigerian-born, “alternative-soul” artist, Bez. The video was shot in
Music for Africa
This 60 minute radio program on the music and ideas of Oumou Sangare–known as “The Songbird