Vroom. Vroom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhrgnCAydu4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Your parents' Congolese music--like it needs the jolt--gets the dance music treatment from the kids,
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
The Nigerian senator and his 13 year old bride
Apart from the Nigerian media and a BBC story this has not had much traction. It
Renunciation and redemption
The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee’s novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, ‘Disgrace.’
The Emperor has no clothes
How do we make sense of the current direction of the ANC, described yesterday by Archbishop
The Unofficial World Cup Song?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_Ew6zsnDY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Is this playful ode to coloured identity,* becoming the unofficial World Cup anthem? Apparently South
Mandela’s Children
Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.
Flavor of the Month
The UK Observer, despite its best attempts, does not have its finger on the pulse of the South African literary scene. The World Cup didn’t help.
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
Goal!
The cover of the May issue of the Spanish edition of Esquire gets into the World
Photography: 'New Men'
[slideshow] From new work by Cape Town-based photographer Araminta de Clarmont. A photo series on ikrwala
Africa, Now With Internet
Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?
Nas and Damian Marley channel Amadou and Mariam
[audio=http://thefader.cachefly.net/nas-damian-marley-Patience.mp3] "Patience," another track of the much anticipated "Distant Relatives" project. Nas and Damian Marley channels
Friday Music: Jalin Rose
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10881896 w=500&h=281] Love this video and rapper Jalin Rose's flow. The sample is off Ski's "24
South Africa. It's in South America
Apparently on a Chicago TV station. Let's hope this a spoof. Otherwise it explains this kind
Paul Sika, "Andy Warhol’s grandson"
The very talented Ivorian artist Paul Sika (I've linked to Paul's work last year on my
The Lost Bushmen
It is still okay to create the most objectionable stereotypes about certain Africans and for it to be considered fine. This time: India.