Sindiso Nyoni’s Riot Art
Short recent video profile by VOA’s Nico Colombant of the Zimbabwean artist, illustrator and designer R!OT
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Nelson Mandela (Hollywood; plural)
Rumours are circulating on various Hollywood gossip and film blogs that Stringer Bell also known as
Music Break. Sababu
Belgian band Zita Swoon, world-famous in their own country –I’m biased– recorded an easy listening album
Nigeria Fashion Week
Probably to coincide with New York Fashion Week, Vice released the Nigerian installment of its “Fashion
Introducing Angolan singer Aline Frazão
Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media's pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.
Surfer dude
Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa, though
Pharoahe Monch is ‘Still Standing’
http://youtu.be/tBfMuf_JjI0 One of the best rappers alive, featuring the lady who sang the original hook on
“Can you think of a country that starts with the letter U?”
You’ve seen those “Are you smarter than a 5 year old” videos on Youtube (it’s an
Senegalese Sushi
I still mourn the day I walked around to Le Grand Dakar, one of my favorite
Salone Got Riddim
Short film about the rhythm of daily life in Sierra Leone, and the dancing talents of the country's women.
Trouble at the Global Fund
What’s going on at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (GFATM)? It recently
Very African and Very Modern
Congolese artists Konono N°1 and Baloji collaborated by merging “traditional” sounds from Africa's biggest country with hip hop.
Dubai could do with a lot more of this
Dubai can actually be a city of gems that might surprise you. Like soul musician Hamdan Al-Abri, who is of Zanzibari descent.
The forefront of innovation
There needs to be another solution than free market capitalism globally to promote artistic creativity. The experience from Sierra Leone is not encouraging.
Friday Music Bonus Edition
Let’s do a Friday Diaspora edition. There are some half-baked attempts at linking the videos in
The ‘Shit Nigerians Say’ video
EDITED: I promised myself we won’t post any of the “Shit People Say” videos–the best ones I’ve
Afrikaner Bloods
Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.
Martin Luther King Jnr.’s Day
Before he died, most Americans had very negative views of Martin Luther King Jnr., or were ignorant about his aims. They still are.
The West is no longer the motor of history
The possibility of a new politics emerging from the new left social movements to reconfigure the nation state.
Paying homage
Pitchom, Batida, Vieux Farka Toure, P-Unit, Sauti Sol and Tinariwen comprise our weekly Music Break.