"Making French money isn't easy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4_3h2A1cg Mamani Keita arrived in Paris in the late eighties as a backing vocalist for Salif
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Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
Blitz The Ambassador Speaks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deh07ZDF1aA Blitz The Ambassador talks about the initial reception of his music ("slow"), the musical Fela!
Music Break / Shabazz Palaces
http://vimeo.com/27758516 I'm looking forward to hearing Shabazz Palaces play during their European tour later this month.
Red Hot Chili Peppers got lost in Ethiopia
The Red Hot Chili Peppers funk jam track Ethiopia came following "a life-changing trip Flea and
Music Break / Youssoupha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arve4ZB8jog Kinshasa-born rapper Youssoupha moved to France at the age of 10. Ever since releasing his
Music Break / Lexxus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZmwWZUYUU New video for the Congolese AIAC favorite Lexxus, recorded in Kinshasa, featuring the Kinois rapper
Music Break / Fatoumata Diawara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82BifytoYY Easy listening. 'Bassa' is a song by the Côte d'Ivoire-born, Mali-raised and now France-based artist
Music Break / Lalcko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSIO_eAomrs French-Cameroonian rapper Lalcko released a strong record earlier this year: 'L’eau lave mais l’argent rend
You no longer need to be white to feel like a tourist in South Africa
What do you do as a South African tourist industry when the promised surge in visitors
Music Break / Y'akoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgMKpaWG_E German-Ghanian singer Y'akoto's biography on her website made me look up the meaning of the
The news about Romelu Lukaku
You've heard the news about Romelu Lukaku? The 18-year-old Belgian-Congolese striker signed a contract with his
Sampling Semenya
An interview in a (South African) Sunday paper with a 'hopping mad' Caiphus Semenya (the South
'The Truth About Crime'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYngRIzG3Uk&w=600&h=373] “In South Africa,” anthropologist Jean Comaroff tells us in this lecture, “murder rates are held
Vargas Llosa in Congo
Not sure whether Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, El Sueño del Celta (The Dream
August 1, Benin
Maybe not the most popular artist in Benin today, but the country's independence day is a
Music Break / Zaki Ibrahim
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZd2uimcuI&w=600&h=373] The other day, we were wondering where all the female African MC's were at. Give
'Live from the Continent'
South African artist Spoek Mathambo gets the Tim & Barry treatment for their online music channel
Music Break / Stromae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vr1nyXu4Ts Stromae seems determined to turn every song on his 2010 album Cheese into a hit.
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.
Sesotho Cipher
Before moving down from Maseru to Cape Town in 2008 and exploring the Cape's hip hop