Africa Is a Country

Friday Music Bonus Edition

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Friday Music Bonus Edition

By
Tom Devriendt

Niagass comments on Senegal’s president Wade’s running for another term:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqsCXR_l5o

We’ve been listening to Robert Glasper’s new album since it came out and we think you should too. He played ‘Always Shine’ with Lupe Fiasco and Bilal on Letterman this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXKbUCC-bU

Elom 20ce channeling Thomas Sankara and Frantz Fanon in ‘L’orage approche’:

Michael Kiwanuka (again) with an acoustic version of ‘Home Again’:‬

And Wilow Amsgood (he calls himself “Brazzaïrois”) with Entek and Grems: ‘Ô Ma Femme (homme à femme)’:

Further Reading

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.

How to unmake the world

In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.

A migrant’s tale

On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.