Music Break. Badi
Remember Brussels artist Badi (BD Banx on the Héritage project or his Beasty Boys-styled video ‘Jump’)?
Culture
Edgar Sekloka wrote a book
Taking up the fashionable concept of the book trailer, Edgar Sekloka, one half of French hip
Music Break. Alec Lomami
Dapper Congolese-American rapper Alec Lomami (interviewed here by MTV Iggy) shouts outs his old hometown Kinshasa over
The silence between portraits
Number 17 in our 'Found Objects': The short documentary, 'Mr. Mkhize,' by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Good doses of pan-Africanism
Since it first came out last year I’ve had Nas and Damian Marley’s concept album Distant
Music Break. The Funk League
An older song by The Funk League, but it comes with a new video. Featuring Brand
Paris is a Continent
The first in a series exploring the music of France's capital. Hinda Talhaoui, originally from Paris' suburbs, is our guide.
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0
Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe. In this hilarious video
Denzel Washington is a Cape Town cop
When Hollywood comes to our doorstep they use Cape Town as a cheap stand in for somewhere else. We don't get to see our city on screen; represented authentically.
'Suit Up'
Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over Cape
Music Break. Dengue Fever
A lot of music we like don’t come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue Fever,
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) – Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording artist
Music Break. Jolly Boys
These guys remind me of Sunday afternoons at my great aunt’s house in Parkwood.
Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed
'Julius Malema sets the cultural agenda'
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Occupy Africa
How do Africans–ground zero for resource extraction by the world’s 1%–feel about the now global ‘Occupy’