The Scramble for Vinyl
The trend among rare-groove DJs to make money of “discovering” and “rediscovering” old vinyl in Africa and then rereleasing the music under their own labels.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Music Mondays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SK_Z_LGEac&w=500&h=301&rel=0] These guys are obsessed with the elements. The band is named for the cold current
Simphiwe Dana Speaks
Simphiwe Dana is probably the most talented female singer of her generation from South Africa. (Thandiswa
Brooklyn Block Party
Via Soul of Brooklyn
The Pan African Space Station
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dydtXJ94CE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Detroit DJ and producer, Theo Parrish, is one of the artists slated to appear at the
Music Break
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/14091396 w=500&h=281] The debut music video from Nigerian-born, "alternative-soul" artist, Bez. The video was shot in
How democracy is lived
From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa’s middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.
The New South Africa
… This is a time when the fruits are growing out of something that was sown
V.S. Naipaul does Africa
The British writer V.S. Naipaul's previous forays into Africa were fictional: The novels "A Bend in
Shameless Self Promotion
Since Herman is too modest, I'll do it: A new book he edited on media politics
Nairobi Style
Via Nairobi Style
An African Alan Lomax
Afropop has a great audio program on Hugh Tracey, who recorded over 250 albums of "traditional"
Music for Africa
This 60 minute radio program on the music and ideas of Oumou Sangare--known as "The Songbird
As-Salāmu Alaykum
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/13045384 w=600&h=368] This short clip of Brooklyn's Mos Def, offering greetings while performing at the most
Time Out
A few of us are taking a break from daily blogging to enjoy what's left of
Traffic Report
Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.
Who Are We?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoqsw3n8D6g&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My man Gary Younge, New York-based feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, has a
The Liberation of Afrikaans
A new film – and play – want to mainstream Afrikaans’ creole origins; a historical reality odds with Afrikaner nationalist visions of language.
Music Mondays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_TU7lhqnN0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] From an article in last week's "Detroit Metro Times": '... In the '60s, Motown was
Ezra Ngcukana, R.I.P.
Woke up this morning with the sad news in my email inbox--from music journalist Gwen Ansell--that