Kuduro’s International Wave
If Os Kuduristas is problematic, there’s no one to blame for its existence but perhaps us, the international community and the media.
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Weekend Music Break, N°29
Here’s a resolution for the new year: to feature more Togolese pop. If you don’t know
Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions
How anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media.
The Trouble with Aid with “The Trouble with Aid”
How the humanitarian movement grew in close relation to the democratization of moving image technologies.
‘Race jokes’ in South African ads
In South Africa, repackaging dated colonial fears about race and sex are used to sell beer and to win an advertising award for being "different."
Hip as Nationalist Project
Kuduru as an effort by politically connected Angolan elites to to package a fun and edgy dance born in Angola as soft power.
Redefining “Blackness”
An interview with Nigerian-American artist, Toyin Odutola.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°28
Kuduro pioneer Sebem (fresh out of prison; he was in for repeated traffic violations, from what
God, too, takes the train to work
The author, also a photographer, on documenting South Africa's "train churches."
10 African films to watch out for, N°15
The Professor is a fiction film by Tunisian director Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud. Synopsis: Tunis 1977. Khalsawi
DJ Al Walser For President
Vice Magazine recently ran an interview with Al Walser, the DJ who nabbed a Grammy nomination for
Documentary: Fuelling Poverty in Nigeria
Kicking off with an introduction from Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the short documentary Fuelling Poverty amounts
Jared Thorne’s Black Folks
A black photographer who moved to South Africa from the US, explores the transcontinental dialogue between black middle class people the world over.
#GhanaDecides Playlist
Results of today’s parliamentary and presidential elections in Ghana are expected at the earliest by Sunday.
This is not Pantsula
Sbujwa is a South African dance described as a dance that requires every muscle in your body to work in order to complete the moves.
10 African films to watch out for, N°14
Documentary filmmakers are better at spreading the word about their new work on the web compared
Literary Sudans
The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.
The artist as citizen
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
Africa and the Biennial: Regard Benin
In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,”
Gaborone is not a bore
It might not be Dakar or Nairobi, but Gaborone certainly does not look empty.