'Suit Up'
Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over Cape
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Music Break. Dengue Fever
A lot of music we like don’t come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue Fever,
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) – Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording artist
What Ugandans think of Obama’s “Special Forces”
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
Music Break. Jolly Boys
These guys remind me of Sunday afternoons at my great aunt’s house in Parkwood.
Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.
Photography. Alec Soth
Michael and Dominique, Detroit, Michigan. From Soth’s series “Sleeping by the Mississippi.”
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed
'Julius Malema sets the cultural agenda'
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Uganda’s Guantánamo
If you're accused of 'terrorism' in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.