Black Thought, Boots Riley (of the Coup), Jeru da Damaja, Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and others at Pan African Market, Long Street, Cape Town, 2001 [Chimurenga].

Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero slaps Nairobi Women Rep Rachel Shebesh in front of cameras [Grafix TV]*

Jay Z: The African Way [DJ PAPERCUTT]

Making Tracks: Chicago Footwork  [Thump]

I’m an Alien [Rebel Diaz]

Born Free [Village Voice]

How the World Answered the March on Washington [PRI The World]

Follow that bird [Globe and Mail]

Moroccan Brides [African Digital Art]

A baffling silence on the long tail of Apartheid corruption [Business Day]

Liverpool fan left with red face after getting misspelled Kolo Toure tattoo [Metro]

Southie St. Patrick’s Day breakfast slugfest begins early [Boston Globe]

* Some Kenyans thought it would be funny to start a #SlapThemLikeKidero hashtag on Twitter.

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.