Cairo, City of Clay
A graphic novel probably doesn't come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing's City of
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here's Moody in 1989--live with Dizzy
"Wow, Africans on skateboards, so cool"
Yan Gross, the Swiss photographer and skateboarder--in an interview with South African journalist, Sean O'Toole, in
Music Break
[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing "Music Man" on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977.
'We All Shall Be Free'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7eQyasgw0 Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and
New Video Blog: 'What's Up Africa'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0Vpse9n8w&rel=0 The first weekly episode (posted on Fridays) of 'creative Africa video blog,' WHAT'S UP AFRICA,
'50 Pounds and a Chicken'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1scxpmbWQ NEWSWEEK [magazine]'s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to
Hosni Mubarak has a macabre sense of humor
We know that the Egyptian dictator has a macabre sense of humor: I am fed up.
On the Road with Ebo Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVuqmpO0G2Y Following the release of "Love and Death", Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days.
My Brother's Keeper
http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his 'Lost for Words', recorded in Harare
Edouard Glissant est mort
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jql4ctFACwY The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCjZ6gThyY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana's "El Juidero," the title track of
Google's Art Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the
The Endgame
The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how
'What is the state of African writing?'
http://vimeo.com/15616288 Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.
White History Month
Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in "The Nation"--that's still worth repeating--on Black