The Planet of Hip Hop
One of the founders of Cape Town rap music label, Pioneer Unit Records, talks about the local hip hop scene, talks about the coloured Afrikaans and Xhosa rap scene there.
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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 / The Plastics
Music video for the Cape Town band, The Plastics. They worked with Gordon Raphael, who also produces
Weekend Special, July 23
* Philip Gourevitch, of The New Yorker, probably still healing from the mauling he got over
Colonialism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHK308_MTiU&w=600&h=373] A satirical film made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. Worth seeing again. It
Flash Mob
http://youtu.be/5iIFqHMOE1g No it's not a protest. It's PR for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth
Malawi Spring
By Dan Moshenberg Did you hear about Malawi Spring? It started Wednesday, July 20. Thousands of
Sesotho Cipher
Before moving down from Maseru to Cape Town in 2008 and exploring the Cape's hip hop
Music Break / Gracias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9DFWp32L6g We plugged Kinshasa-born Gracias not too long ago. This is the video for Mon€y, another
Spinning in Gauteng
http://vimeo.com/16724676 Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning
Music Break / Akala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOKgjoxoto There's so much going on in these 8 minutes of rap by Akala, we can
Mandela's heirs
http://vimeo.com/26538549 The documentary "Dear Mandela," about three young leaders of a shack dwellers movement in Durban,
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town’s Cape Flats.
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
South Africa's first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between
Weekend Special, July 17
http://vimeo.com/24894177 All that stuff we could not blog--we have real jobs--or were too lazy to put
Ken's Song
http://vimeo.com/15422187 Some rural flavor from Hambale, Zambia. Filmed by David Tree. H/T: Adrian Bischoff.
Hillywood
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2ZHiGmws8&w=600&h=373] The program of selected films and documentaries for this year's Rwanda Film Festival going down
Music Break / DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger
http://vimeo.com/26301164 We liked the previous recent work by DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger. No surprise then the
Drones in Somalia
The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.
White Wedding
The internets have been rightly outraged at a white couple, "Dave and Chantal," who decided on
'The last photo before leaving'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hef6Roa2z3U Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe