Manifest Destiny
It is through popular culture that the initial connections with homeland and diaspora will begin to make an impact on the consciousness of younger generations of Africans.
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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.
Jacob Zuma Time
Sean Jacobs Note from a friend who closely watches the South African political scene: Below [the
White People Eat Fried Chicken
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_WxJVxHcw&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Allison Swank Just as Nelson Mandela went underground as the Black Pimpernel in 1961 to
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg4nu5C-SI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This is hipster stuff you can dance to at least. "Boomslang" (literally tree snake) by
Portico Quartet
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6hPuui-l8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Next Tuesday (September 28th) and Wednesday (September 29th) London jazz group Portico Quartet--their sound has
African Booty
Sean Jacobs Forbes Magazine--fresh from its cover story last week about Barack Obama's "Kenyan, anti-colonialist tendencies"
Ethiopian Democracy Lesson
Sean Jacobs Earlier this week the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi addressed a public lecture on
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ulurhU7CI "Days of Fire" by Nitin Sawhney featuring Natty (his mother is from Lesotho, btw) performed
Spoek Comes to New York City
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWFUXYqFUU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Spoek Mathambo, the part-time Johannesburg-based "... Post-Apartheid, Post-Hip Hop Posterboy," is interviewed by BSTV during
African 'World Music'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mHMWO_-mM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Nigerian superstars P-Square doing "Do Me." This is not your average world music band.
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Nine young filmmakers and artists look into Congo’s histories, its present and future desires.
'Someday We’ll All Be Free'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gn6WMcYKzI I first saw this video this summer when it was posted online. I love the
Cédric Gerbehaye’s Congo
You probably know Belgian photographer Cedric Gerbehaye from his portrait of Laurent Nkunda. That 2007 picture
Mugabe’s a Chicken
http://vimeo.com/14615574 I don't care much for Cape Town group Freshlyground's muzak. But you can't deny the
Vogue Africa
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGqwvyugbZI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Video of legendary 1960s model Bethann Hardison interviewing Togolese-American model David Agbodji for Vogue Italia.
Friday Links
I, like a few others here at AIAC, update my Twitter feed regularly, but occasionally I
The Good Life
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/12812385 w=500&h=281] The promo for South African-US duo Blk Sonshine's latest release.
The Good Guys
This film “Mugabe and the White African,” is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.
David Adjaye's Urban Africa
For a while now I've been wanting to post some of the images by celebrated architect
Our People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mPUpojd84&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This past summer at least three prominent figures of the Cape Town jazz scene--the saxophone