Music Break. Dengue Fever
http://youtu.be/5Lgy1p6mdVg A lot of music we like don't come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhwKO7AIsc Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) - Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording
What Ugandans think of Obama’s “Special Forces”
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
Music Break. Jolly Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZoImzA5iO4 These guys remind me of Sunday afternoons at my great aunt's house in Parkwood. This
Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic ‘greatest hits’ and childhood wonder on film.
Photography. Alec Soth
Michael and Dominique, Detroit, Michigan. From Soth's series "Sleeping by the Mississippi."
'Julius Malema sets the cultural agenda'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kUhrBGVS8&w=600&h=369] The third season of "90 Plein Street," a scripted series about the travails of a
Photography. Nana Kofi Acquah
Ghana. Here.
Occupy Africa
http://youtu.be/FnCV2tlsDqU How do Africans--ground zero for resource extraction by the world's 1%--feel about the now global
Music Break. Alabama Shakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVSUH6_oBY I have a student (born in Texas) who insists he won't travel to or through
'The Internationale'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL8_ElpStg The always reliable Billy Bragg live on the streets of Dublin this past weekend.
Eating Staten Island Crow
New Orleans-based historian Thomas J. Adams on Occupy Wall Street: "We are the 99% [the slogan
Political theater
Judith Stein in Dissent: Despite its apparent permanence, OWS is mostly composed of part-time participants, who
Mr Balotelli
The estranged son of Ghanaian immigrants reared in Brescia wreaks havoc in Manchester: "Why always me?"
Photography. Nico Krijno
South African photographer whose "works deal with the tensions related to human sexuality and the relation