The Youth of Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_qL0IXdKQ Old Master Boubacar Traoré (also known as Kar Kar, “the one who dribbles too much”)
339 Article(s) by:
Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
Bwana Kitoko
If you’re passing through Brussels the next months and you haven’t seen Belgian painter Luc Tuymans’s
True Blood or Sushi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV6e1HPxcY&w=500&h=307] S: What does this say about contemporary white Afrikaans speaking music culture? T: That Van
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBlOvNzXzQ Illa J, younger brother of J Dilla, teams up with Belgian producer Cris Prolific. February
Black Diamond(s)
[vodpod id=Video.5523753&w=500&h=411&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffr.player-feed.previewnetworks.com%2Fv3.1%2Fcinema%2F5444%2F331100125-1%2F] Director Pascale Lamche’s got some help from Peter Mukurube (that's him putting Sepp Blatter
Deep Roots Malawi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmWi0vn5Y4 Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary.
Cairo, City of Clay
A graphic novel probably doesn't come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing's City of
On the Road with Ebo Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVuqmpO0G2Y Following the release of "Love and Death", Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days.
My Brother's Keeper
http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his 'Lost for Words', recorded in Harare
Google's Art Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the
Self-portraits in the Attic
We feature a selection of Togolese artist Hélène Amouzou’s photographic work; self-portraits taken “mostly in her attic” in Brussels.
Anything is Possible for Kentridge
http://vimeo.com/14544412 If you haven’t seen this documentary (trailer above) on South African artist William Kentridge yet,
Music Break: Gugulethu’s rooftops
You’ll rarely see local rap artists, especially ones from Cape Town, on South African music video channels. But not if Driemanskap had anything to do with it.
Music Break. Simphiwe Dana
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829dg3GN7aM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Does it matter whether we know where a music video was shot? Probably not, but
Music Break
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfu8z8_fresk-prenons-l-afrique-en-main_music The guys from Fresk have opinions, but we will go into that another day. Until
Music Break
http://vimeo.com/17713639 Femi Kuti and his band strip it down for La Blogothèque, some hours before they
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKFpx6zmYo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] “Après Tintin au Congo j’ai lu Sarkozy à Dakar / 50 minutes d'insultes... accusé à
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPYQaAJR5U&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African DJ Hamma (former member of Brasse Vannie Kaap, these days "1/3rd of the
Out my window
Out My Window is a 360° online documentary and the first release from the HIGHRISE project,