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
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
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
Black Economic Empowerment in your dreams
I saw this ad on TV a few times during my recent trip down to South
Time and Time again
Alex Perry’s work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that’s allowed when you write about Africa.
Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko’s mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
We are the world
Despite its high cheesiness quotient and half of the teams featured in the video already out
Thank You Ghana Black Stars!
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/13010025 w=500&h=307] Ghana's Black Stars was on a run to make history--to become the first African
