These photographs (above and below) by South African Rushay Booysen (from Port Elizabeth in the Eastern

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riYn1SozWo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The young Lagos, Nigeria-band Che and the Continuous Highlife Evolution’s striking “Civil War.” As the

Last month, Mali’s trio SMOD (consisting of DJ Sam, Ousco and Donski) released a second single,

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNFRVmtz1GA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African artist Lesego Rampolokeng, who grew up in Soweto, performing his “Fela Sermon” live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccj2BH25c0I A few of us live in the United States, so we thought we should act

I needed an excuse to post that picture and this audio since. Via David Lane.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI&w=500&h307&rel=0] Yeh, we do politics even when we dancing. And we have a thing for David

Writer Imraan Coovadia, on lit magazine n+1‘s blog, writing about the tenplate for “the South African

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrQCRxD-u4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Rapper Young Kay is “a leader of the younger urban music scene in Malawi.” [via

More than a year later these lines–written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction