Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mB59n0zBA&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Oakland, California rap group The Hieroglyphics and Goapele singing about some kind of Soweto circa
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
It’s time to be offended
Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.
'Suffer'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaZ66wssa0 New video from M.anifest H/T: Peter Rachleff
Strawberries and Peri-Peri
The website of South Africa’s ruling party was down for a minute after hackers took it
So, language originated in Africa
I suppose we should be proud or something.
The American President's Mother
Reporter Janny Scott in The New York Times, and the author of “A Singular Woman: The
When it hits, you feel no pain
Music and politics are often intimate partners in society, whether an artist consciously connects them. What role does music play in the politics of today’s world?
'Nü Revolution'
http://vimeo.com/22607584 Les Nubians have a new album (it's been on sale since yesterday). These are the
Tim Hetherington 1970-2011
The war and conflict photographer Tim Hetherington started his career in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he did not just photograph war.
Madonna chooses Malawi
Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that’s where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?
Tendai Biti at Columbia University
One of the leaders of Zimbabwe’s opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.
His father named him for Duke Ellington
Late jazz musician Duke Ngcukana, has been described as “a trumpet player extraordinaire,” and “a fine person.”
Oliver Hermanus at Cannes
"Skoonheid," the new film by South African director Oliver Hermanus will be screened in the Un
Miss Liberia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUxlzuLe-Nw
Street Party, Johannesburg
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
'Brown Baby'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfO4-PVQwA H/T: Rich Flint
'The Journey'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQs-fPhlSnU New track and video, above, for "O Caminho" (The Journey) by London-based rappers Mohammed Yahya
In The Name of Malawi
Indeed.
'Write on Africa'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztZFt-iExE&feature=player_embedded#at=159 Since we are on a roll with Woodstock, Cape Town, here's a profile of graffiti
The Coloureds Comics
We sent 5 questions to South African comic (or graphic) artists Nathan and Andre Trantraal, known collectively as the Trantraal Brothers.