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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
Music Break. Badi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_mOvMcD5gI Remember Brussels artist Badi (BD Banx on the Héritage project or his Beasty Boys-styled video
Malema Time
South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema’s brand of populist politics.
Edgar Sekloka wrote a book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QGPTviZkw Taking up the fashionable concept of the book trailer, Edgar Sekloka, one half of French
Liberian Demo-crazy
There's been a lot of rumors and propaganda flying around related to the Liberian run-off election,
Music Break. Alec Lomami
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over
The silence between portraits
Number 17 in our ‘Found Objects’: The short documentary, ‘Mr. Mkhize,’ by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Good doses of pan-Africanism
Since it first came out last year I've had Nas and Damian Marley's concept album Distant
Photography. Fatoumata Kande Senghor
Information.
Music Break. The Funk League
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXD50lsRGk An older song by The Funk League, but it comes with a new video. Featuring
Wikipedia and oral knowledge
Verifiability and no original research are two core content policies for contributors to Wikipedia. You need to back
Take me to your leader: Babatunde Fashola
The Governor of Lagos has larger ambitions than just governing Nigeria’s and probably Africa’s most vibrant megacity.
Paris is a Continent
The first in a series exploring the music of France’s capital. Hinda Talhaoui, originally from Paris’ suburbs, is our guide.
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0
Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe. In this hilarious video
Africa Gathering
http://vimeo.com/25519731 I'm in DC this weekend for the Africa Gathering social entrepreneurship conference. (Video of the London
The Mapping Stereotypes Project
The full set of "maps" here. H/T: Ignacio Fernandez Amunategui
Denzel Washington is a Cape Town cop
When Hollywood comes to our doorstep they use Cape Town as a cheap stand in for somewhere else. We don’t get to see our city on screen; represented authentically.
'Suit Up'
http://vimeo.com/31434026 Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over
Music Break. Dengue Fever
http://youtu.be/5Lgy1p6mdVg A lot of music we like don't come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhwKO7AIsc Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) - Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording