The Prophet Karl Marx
Few intellectuals have changed the world in such practical ways.
Culture
'Political Art'
Negar Azimi, in Frieze Magazine, on what the ascendency of ‘political art’ means for art’s actual
Flying Overseas
http://youtu.be/Wd6NxkKCVI8 I am not cool like Theophelius London. I don’t wear nice, patterned shirts. Solange Knowles*
Hip-hop's Language Problem
Rob Boffard writing in The Guardian: Hip-hop in South Africa faces the same problems all music
No One Will Remember The Book Cover
I received my copy of this year’s Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love in
'Moore Street'
http://vimeo.com/10523895
Viva Amilcar Cabral
Paris-based rap group MC Malcriado--captures Cabral's appeal to the new generation.
'Tales from the Sahel'
This coming Friday Maal and British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah will begin their UK tour of “Tales
Music Break
The video for Dutch singer Ntjam Rosie’s song “In Need” featured in the latest episode of
The History of 'South African' Cinema
The Johannesburg filmmaker Cedric Sundstrom has been working on a documentary film on the history of
Music Break
The video for Gil Scott Heron and Jamie X’s “I’ll Take Care of U,” from the
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.
Tidal Waves Goes South
Anyone who makes songs about politicians eating all the money–what else do they do?–gets our vote.
The Beautiful Game
Correction: You don’t have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English Premier
'Africa's First World Cup' Revisited
We’re allowed to talk about the 2010 World Cup until 2014. Later today our man, historian
The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo's whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
'Shaka Zulu'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxZvvETnPE Not sure what to make of the video. The video was filmed “in Africa.” Kage
File Under No Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTtUqxklzs Another of those pending posts. The video for “Flying High” for the British rapper Chipmunk
'America as … point of reference'
The artist Dawn Okoro (take the link to her blog) on her most recent work: I’ve