Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wJOxcTdYuk Last month, Mali's trio SMOD (consisting of DJ Sam, Ousco and Donski) released a second
6397 Article(s) by:
Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNFRVmtz1GA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African artist Lesego Rampolokeng, who grew up in Soweto, performing his "Fela Sermon" live
Happy Thanksgiving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccj2BH25c0I A few of us live in the United States, so we thought we should act
Some Other Kenya
Young Kenyans are not cynical, detached brand obsessed hedonists and want to take a personal stake in the affairs of the country.
Wedding Announcements
I needed an excuse to post that picture and this audio since. [audio=http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-1711102m46snob.mp3] Via David Lane.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI&w=500&h307&rel=0] Yeh, we do politics even when we dancing. And we have a thing for David
Invictus is not a country
Writer Imraan Coovadia, on lit magazine n+1's blog, writing about the tenplate for "the South African
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrQCRxD-u4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Rapper Young Kay is "a leader of the younger urban music scene in Malawi." [via
Saving Darfur
More than a year later these lines--written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction
Fela in the Big Apple
In the mid-1980s, Fela Kuti and his band, then in their prime, came to play in New York City.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA23GnvAXWQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Yuri Da Cunha is a household name in Angola,and is on his way to becoming
Do you know Omar al Bashir?
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan’s president.
What's "a native African"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxrLiqsXSQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Even if you don't care about boxing. On sports network ESPN's their "analysts" Chris Broussard
The African childhoods of white expats
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?
‘The media and war-mongering’
Journalist Maggie Fick is covering South Sudan's self-determination referendum for the AP. She's only one of
Africa in black and white in the 1970s
Preview (and more information in French) of images from the exhibition, "The Ritual of the pose--Africa
New cartoon reps urban West Africa
By Allison Swank One of the first of its kind out of West Africa, the new
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUxzYbQQSo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for "Fairy Tale" by South African-based Mozambican band, 340ml. The video was shot
What's West Africa got to do with it?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQk_pWmisA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Folgers coffee's 2009 TV commercial. H/T: JohnNess
Naipaul loves the cats
In the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, novelist Norman Rush reviews V.S.