I have a student (born in Texas) who insists he won’t travel to or through Mississippi

Malian rapper Mokobe ripped into French perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain’s comments about “hard working blacks” in his

The always reliable Billy Bragg live on the streets of Dublin this past weekend.

That’s today. Other than Chiluba’s shoes, Sata’s anti-China rants (he’s stopped for now), Alexandra Fuller’s books

The estranged son of Ghanaian immigrants reared in Brescia wreaks havoc in Manchester: “Why always me?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJ-DCMBKKI It seems that the election atmosphere remains tense, but word from Liberia is people are taking

Fresh off its Euros prize from its €100,000 prize from the Dutch Prince Claus Fund, Chimurenga launched

Ethiopian pop from this past summer. Sayat Demissie is a former beauty queen. Her decision to

You couldn’t miss this trailer in front of The New School’s West 12th Street building in

Ghostpoet (government name: Obaro Ejimiwe) raps “in the bluesy, introspective tradition of Tricky and Roots Manuva”. The

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcQKYdWKoY Cameroon (‘Kamer’) hip hop is churning out lots of videos lately. Like this one by

Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated their

Nerina Penzhorn likes this. That means I should too. The very young singer, Lianne La Havas,

Africa Unsigned, an Amsterdam-based website uses crowd-funding–a method which allow people to pool their money online–to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7K3e0M8SI The video for Kampala rappers Sylvester & Ssavoo’s “Akaseera” comes with a laid back groove.