Fela in the Big Apple
In the mid-1980s, Fela Kuti and his band, then in their prime, came to play in New York City.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA23GnvAXWQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Yuri Da Cunha is a household name in Angola,and is on his way to becoming
Do you know Omar al Bashir?
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
What's "a native African"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxrLiqsXSQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Even if you don’t care about boxing. On sports network ESPN’s their “analysts” Chris Broussard
The African childhoods of white expats
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?
‘The media and war-mongering’
Journalist Maggie Fick is covering South Sudan’s self-determination referendum for the AP. She’s only one of
Africa in black and white in the 1970s
Preview (and more information in French) of images from the exhibition, “The Ritual of the pose–Africa
New cartoon reps urban West Africa
By Allison Swank One of the first of its kind out of West Africa, the new
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUxzYbQQSo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for “Fairy Tale” by South African-based Mozambican band, 340ml. The video was shot
What's West Africa got to do with it?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQk_pWmisA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Folgers coffee’s 2009 TV commercial. H/T: JohnNess
Naipaul loves the cats
In the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, novelist Norman Rush reviews V.S.
Picture the Children
In December 2009 the photographer Emmanuel Andre and filmmaker Stephanie Wang Breal went on a trip