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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa Is a Country. He currently edits the Eleven Named People newsletter.
Crazy Bald Heads
Blackwater mostly recruits from former US soldiers and former soldiers from dictatorships like Apartheid South Africa
Paul Kagame Spins Youtube
Paul Kagame is a skilled media operator. Sending unprepared interviewers his way, is not how to do journalism.
When Thelonious Monk first met Dollar Brand
By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP's as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
Oh, Canada
Sean, AIAC's editor, reflects, in a drive-buy fashion, on Canada's travel rules and some reasons why Toronto is a great place to visit.
Zim Ngqawana
Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a prominent figure in the second generation of South African jazz musicians, passed away on Monday.
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
A sobering representation of the psychic scars that still haunt many Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.
Mad Max in Botswana
Botswana has a thriving heavy metal scene. These metal heads have their own specific style too.