I Remember Black Pete
Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe's Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.
Culture
Global Genre Accumulation
If there's an underground dance scene or marginalized community nearby, Diplo or some DJ like him has or probably will "discover," re-frame, and sell it to audiences in another part of the world.
Batsumi's cascade of sound
By Dan Magaziner* South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy. From
Fathers, men and brothers
The third in my series of musical breaks from Paris, France, features L'Algerino, Nessbeal, Corneille and La Fouine.
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°2
An eclectic one. Ethiopian and Ivorian pop, Philly neo soul, Swedish and South African rap and
Black France
The presence of black people in France spans the last three centuries.
Music Break. YaoBobby ft. Fredy Massamba
There’s a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West African
Anton Kannemeyer’s Africa
How meanings, symbolism, and narratives of “other” places and products shift when contextualized within and against South Africa.
Music Break. Rattex
Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town’s Long Street, the
TV Heads
‘Kichwateli’ (‘TV head’ < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project. Contributors
Ingerland, Ingerland, Ingerland
Late last month the English goalkeeper David James wrote in The Observer that he was surprised
Demba Ba
Demba Ba has a habit of falling to his knees post-goal and praying.
Music Break. Fatima Al Qadiri
Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised musician and artist Fatima Al Qadiri just premiered her new EP, “Genre-Specific Xperience,” in
Watch The Throne
South African Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) released his new album Motswafrika. It comes complete with its own politics.
Omar Sy, French movie icon
By Abdourahman Waberi Released only a week ago, ‘Intouchables’ the film (by Eric Toledano & Olivier
Fighting somebody else's war
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings We British are very good at honoring the dead. Last Friday Prime
Let the music
Hinda Talhaoui, originally from Paris but based in Brooklyn, drops the second of her posts highlighting the music of her hometown.
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°1
Girl Power is big among female West African pop singers. Or so recent music videos suggest.
Die Antwoord’s At It Again
How long will be tolerate South African rappers, Die Antwoord's racist and homophobic antics?
Of blood, tears, ink and screen
The birth of a promising publication, WARSCAPES. Let’s support and wish them long life.