Concrete Airplane
Vice recently carried an interesting interview with Miles Claret, whose Soundway Records label re-issues "... lost
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
G'day Mate
“The thing that overwhelms most is the level of professionalism of native Africans in knowing how
Africa on Film: Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds is a recently released short documentary by Dutch filmmaker, Saska Vredeveld (view the film
Enjoy Poverty
How Euro-Americans – directly and indirectly – interact with the Congolese: only as victims.
The Poors
The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" site has also published Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly's widely circulated series
The Judge
HBO has selected the documentary, "Courting Justice", by American filmmakers Ruth Cowan and Jane Thandi Lipman
Stuff White People Do
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he’s helped, lacks critical self-reflection.
Streets is Watching
Shakira should acknowledge “Waka Waka” is a rip off of a Cameroonian song. Everyone knows that. Also pay the original composers.
Simple Football
Belgian photographer captures grassroots football in 30 villages across 10 countries in west and southern Africa.
Zwelethu Mthethwa @ The Studio Museum
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_ri7XJik0&w=500&h=281&rel=0] Via Todd Johnson: Opening on Thursday, July 15, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, some
Still Hip Hop
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woHMTgvfs_E&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Hip hop now has its own museums, honors shows on basic cable, and rap beats
Nick Kristof prefers White Saviors
The New York Times columnist, whose reporting is very influential in elite public opinion about Africa, prefer white “bridge characters.”
The Day After
Locals after South Africa successfully hosted a global, mega-event: why can’t it tackle its inequalities with the same energy and efficiency?
Vintage Bigotry, South African Edition
John Oliver, a "correspondent" for the comedy news show, "The Daily with Jon Stewart," has been
Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNE-5WUtSE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] A good way to tide you over till Sunday's World Cup final is to listen
The graphic first 50 years of Congo’s independence
A graphic novel written and illustrated by a group of Congolese graphic artists, take stock of a half-century of independence for the DRC.
How The Mighty Have Fallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrSakxaGFz4 Two of South Africa's most talented musicians of the last 30 years, Robbie Jansen (1949-2010),
Black Babies
Via Art of Kawaii.
Brussels is Africa
[slideshow] Our man in Brussels, Tom de Vriendt, sent on information on some Africa-themed exhibitions on