Yoweri Museveni busts a move
Uganda's President, in power since 1986, has tried to appeal to the country's youth by rapping. Is it any good?
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Zimbabwe Now
Via Patrick Bond: Last weekend a group of Zimbabwe scholars–organized by University of Kwazulu-Natal School for Development
'The Kenya I Live In'
This December 2010, Kenyan literary magazine, “Kwani?” will publish the top five entries of their “The
Janka in America
The King of Bubu, Janka Nabay, translates this music and his culture for rock kids in the trendy hangouts of New York City.
Music Break
If you’re into house music (I can tolerate some of it) it’s worth listening to this
Viva Tanzania
For all the gross, lurid news stories or the films you see about fatal violence against,
Searching for a ‘blood-diamond bazaar’
Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.
‘Where was Mandela between 1964 and 1990?’
The American (celebrity) writer Kitty Kelley’ on writing an “unauthorized biography” of Nelson Mandela:
Bloody Agent*
We know Jacob Zuma can dance. But can Julius Malema, the future President of South Africa