Music Break. Iyadede
We like stylish Rwandese-Brooklyn singer Iyadede‘s take (in French) on the Theophilus London song “Flying Overseas.”
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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.
No one wants to talk about “the disease”
"Life Above All" has an unbelievable plot and heavy-handed social commentary, but Khomotso Manyaka's excellent performance and a strong supporting cast redeem it.
Music Break. Michael Kiwanuka
Brit-Ugandan singer Michael Kiwanuka (featured here before), who sounds like James Taylor, performs two of his
Translating Angola
Why are certain kinds of war stories embraced by critics and go on to find an international audience, while other finely written stories do not?
The documentary imaginery
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film “Atletu” (The
All of the party
A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.
Giving the Bizness
This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.
GAL draws Africa
71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work
Massalia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik’n) clearly had
Tumi's Tête Savante
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on
Africa and contemporary art
I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term
'See me on television' (in Lesotho)
From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs’s ‘Hona Joale’, recorded in the city
Music Break. Kouyaté-Neerman
We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
The afterlife of African studio photography
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,
The Northern Ireland Connection
A new film challenges the “rainbow nation” narrative, highlighting South Africa's unfulfilled transformation. It involves local filmmakers, with 10% of profits supporting Cape Town's activists.
Doctor Mac
This is number 4 in the music break series, Paris is a Continent.
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.
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.