An interview with the makers of ‘Quel Souvenir,’ a film about an oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon
Twelve years after ground was first broken on an oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon, the
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Music Break. Jeri-Jeri
Berlin based Dub and Techno producer Mark Ernestus (check his previous work with Rhythm and Sound) fell
Serge Ibaka Has No Country
We don't blame people those who can't figure out their DRC from their ROC or their Kinshasa from their Brazzaville.
Film and Johannesburg’s Ponte City
The German writer Norman Ohler described Johannesburg’s Ponte City, Africa’s tallest residential building, thus: “Ponte sums
Rare: Conscious Kwaito
South African kwaito house with an explicit message: we don’t get to hear it often. Shota’s
Germany has a version of GQ magazine
A woman in Germany removes her clothes and poses for a magazine photographer with her famous
The Noise of Cairo
Last month the Daily Beast decided that Cairo had lost its voice. It reminded me of
The Presidential Palace
Paris burned in 2005 and it has been left smoldering since. That's the message of Paris Is a Continent, Number 9.
The Truth and Reconciliation Film
On the screen, South Africa's TRC has invariably been sensationalized into a showcase of trauma-as-entertainment.
Necessary doses of pan-Africanism: Esperanza Spalding’s “Black Gold”
It’s not too late to take your vitamins. And this. Jazz bass player and bandleader Esperanza
Sindiso Nyoni’s Riot Art
Short recent video profile by VOA’s Nico Colombant of the Zimbabwean artist, illustrator and designer R!OT
The Jews of Morocco
An interview with documentary photograpter, Aaron Elkaim, who explores the remains of Morocco's Jewish communities.
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
Friday Music Bonus Edition
So drawn into the video (a plethora of faces, personalities and historic moments) Atlanta trio Algiers
The fragmentary character of memory
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Documenting Tuberculosis
In 2009, 1.7 million people died from TB globally, including 380,000 people living with HIV. The majority of deaths were in Africa.
Nelson Mandela (Hollywood; plural)
Rumours are circulating on various Hollywood gossip and film blogs that Stringer Bell also known as
The confused lens of memory and trauma
The Rwandan film, "Grey Matter," is part of prestigious traveling film exhibition, the Global Film Initiative.
January in Cairo IV: the two faces of Egyptian art
Om Kalthoum, the late great Egyptian singer, stands in the studio of Khaled Hafez. Her eyes are
Music Break. Sababu
Belgian band Zita Swoon, world-famous in their own country –I’m biased– recorded an easy listening album