Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgAhDy41Vwk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] In this short video Portuguese singer Carmen Souza speaks about her third album “Protegid” (which
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Gal draws Belgium and Congo
Belgian cartoonist GAL turned 70 this year. The relations between Belgium and Congo haven’t been absent
Scared dictators, pt.2
The International Society for Human Rights‘s new campaign. Via Osocio.
Shemelis Desta
A post about Ethiopia that is not about Meles Zenawi’s regime. Next week (Tuesday 7 till
Moçambique Popular
Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.
Own Goal
By Peter Alegi In a few hours WikiLeaks will release thousands of secret FIFA documents detailing
Music Break / Franco
In 1987, two years before the Congolese grand maître Franco died (although never substantiated, it is
Move Something
By Caitlin Chandler This World AIDS Day, rather than pay attention to celebrities who are “dying
T.I.A. (Give a Goat)
This is the second post in what might become a regular series of posts of snapshots–
“Keep Africa Alive,” Continued
The campaign is accompanied by print ads featuring celebrities in coffins to represent their digital deaths. Can this stop, please?
Music Break
K.ommando Toxik’s output has been prolific this year. See for example their Persona Non Grata or
T.I.A*
What is either a gollywog or coon ornament in a Christmas display of an East 17th