Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
Culture
Young warriors of light
What is with the increasing use of sci-fi and horror elements in fairly recent music videos and films by African artists.
Pushing African music into the future
The Austria-based Ghanian singer, Anbuley, shows a willingness to jump on unconventional beats.
10 West African Club Tracks
I’m a DJ. So it’s only right I give you ten songs that filled up my
10 African Albums of the Year, 2011
If people still bought full albums, we would suggest them buying these 10 from 2011 for their friends. Like we will.
The Top 10 African films of 2011
2011 was a good year for African cinema. In various cinema seats and at home, I’ve
The love for our mothers
The series, Paris Is a Continent, is on number 6. Songs about our moms and break-up songs sung by men that women will like, among others.
R.I.P. Cesária Évora
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yffEiWHIoZI&w=600&h=349] This morning, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora passed away in Mandelo, São Vicente, the island
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
Ploughing through the blog’s archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for
Dosunmu's 'Restless City,' the best African film of 2011?
I finally got to see director Andrew Dosunmu’s debut feature film, “Restless City,” this summer (at the
Music Break. Ghostpoet
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Mike Skinner playing keys in this “improvised” video for Ghostpoet makes perfect sense. The online
Celebrating African women filmmakers
Two events in London this year focused on female filmmakers working in African cinema. This is
New Films
This list is partly self-indulgent. It is also a way–hopefully weekly–for me to keep an online
The fear-riddled DNA
A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.
"The Somali Neurosis"
14-minute clip from a recent TV profile by Norwegian television of a visit by Somali novelist
Kenya Independence Day
Three Kenyan videos to remember today’s Independence Day. Three popular tunes for our Independence meme. A
Adapting African literature for the screen
In a recent video interview (first spotted on film blog Shadow and Act), Kenyan film director
Music Break. Iyadede
We like stylish Rwandese-Brooklyn singer Iyadede‘s take (in French) on the Theophilus London song “Flying Overseas.”
Music Break. Raashan Ahmad
This video for Raashan Ahmad left me wondering why I have never taken the train to
Cyberpunk Thriller
Zoo City is set in an alternate Johannesburg, where criminals or those who have serious moral failings, get landed with an animal familiar as a permanent attachment.