Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EriPgiXV0 I like this video for Sayon Bamba's song 'L'excisée' (from her album Dougna). Born in
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Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
The Zimbabwe Alliance
"The Zimbabwe Alliance is a funder/advocate partnership to promote a vibrant civil society and a successful
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNynEnPMagA Remember the Belgian-Congolese project Héritage? It took them a while to record a video for
No Art On $2 A Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb18FWbL0mw In memory of Cameroonian artist Goddy Leye (1965-2011).
Movies that matter
If you can’t make it to Stockholm next week, visiting The Hague might be a good
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_O62AItxTs Not the official video for BLK JKS's Zol!"
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S7oMLvl2w French-Congolese musician Abd Al Malik's star is rising fast in Francophone Europe. Behind his, say,
Poetry Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syTnWDcl-8 Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly
ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
No One Will Remember The Book Cover
I received my copy of this year's Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love in
Tidal Waves Goes South
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9kJbnoPtI Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money--what else do they do?--gets our
Street Photographers in Brazzaville
By Lebon Ziavoula, a member of Congo-Brazzaville photographers collective, Generation Elili. Via Afrique in Visu.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsowLHE6f0Y We've plugged Fredy Massamba before. 'Ntoto' is taken from his album Ethnophony.
March 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg18qsycBk It's late already, but it is still March 6: Ghana Independence Day. Dutch rapper Kno'Ledge
Konfab's Lost Tapes
Pioneer Unit's on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection
The Women of Tahrir
http://vimeo.com/20554580 Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke’s film “Kengere” – using puppets – tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda’s civil war.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl6ZcSJ_KY Tidal Waves (the "hardest working band in South Africa" - they really are) played a