Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgZEklDuF8 Some catchy, and barely tolerable, pop from JR--remember him from the kwaiti/dance hit 'Make the
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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.
Vote for Toilets
South Africans vote for new local councillors today. Once the spin and the electioneering clear, we'll
Nigeria Votes
Benedicte Kurzen's often graphic images of the recent (April 16) presidential elections in Nigeria and its
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.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDAuXE2DiM A lot of people dismiss Dominican-American pop singer George Lopez Jr, also known as Twin
Soweto Tee
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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.
Memoirs about Africa
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor--he's written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe--and blogger, has a
Zim Ngqawana
Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a prominent figure in the second generation of South African jazz musicians, passed away on Monday.
Some Men in South Africa
A 13-year-old South African girl is the latest victim of "corrective rape," in which men rape
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8QYVXqdSmg We've featured Dutch R&B singer, Ntjam Rosie, here before. We had to do it again.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbhplk5rljc With a nod to the 1990s, one of our favorites, DJ Premier, presents "A New
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
A sobering representation of the psychic scars that still haunt many Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.
Made in Africa
I'm in the suburbs of Toronto this weekend and I go to bed early nowadays (my
Postapartheid Ideology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOiOkDRQv_w The video for "Go Getter," by Johannesburg's MB featuring Malika, which I saw playing once
Mad Max in Botswana
Botswana has a thriving heavy metal scene. These metal heads have their own specific style too.
Magnificent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlyWkM8aAs Earlier this week ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, including one for music during the
'For the Africans in the Diaspora'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDVUVosSgA From somewhere in American suburbia, the very frank, at times trite The Ten Minute Fix,