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Jadakiss and the King
Hip hop is usually associated with revolution and counter culture. But American artists, who visit the content, usually side with power. Like Jadakiss did in Swaziland
Music Break
The old lion of Zimbabwean liberation music, Thomas Maphumo, and his band, The Blacks Unlimited, play
The Party is not The Nation
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week—in
This Generation of African Women Leaders
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we’ve HT’d him a few times.
Dakar Hustle
http://vimeo.com/20927993 Video for spoken word from Senegalese rapper Keyti–remember him? Keyti was one of the stars
Pseudo-cosmopolitanism
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
Music Break
Rapper Stalley, late last year, channels Muhammed Ali. He could have done without the racial epithet.
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.
The Russian connection
Soviet cinema had a major impact on the narratives, styles, and tone of African filmmakers.
