Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7boL1EkW7M Mos Def, “Umi Says,” Live at the Austin City Limits Festival 2009.
Culture
When Richard Pryor dressed up as “a tribal bushman”
This was for the cover art of one of his comedy albums: "The cover looked totally real, like a cover of National Geographic."
Dakar Modern
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbSVS0AmtA] I’ve been wanting to post for a while now about the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Primarily
John Akomfrah is Brilliant
British filmmaker John Akonfrah will be artist-in-residence this Spring at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.
'Real African Music'
Thanks to HavePlentyMusic I saw that big time house producers experimenting with Kuduro for a few
Teju Cole takes the City
Our man Teju Cole’s novel “Open City,” set in post-9/11 New York City, is doing better
Konfab's Lost Tapes
Pioneer Unit’s on fire. Yet another release by the Cape Town label, this time a collection
The Women of Tahrir
Images by anthropologist Yasmin Moll. For more work by Moll, watch Fashioning Faith or read her
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his
‘The Worst Place To Be Gay’
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Music Break
The music video for the remix of Brooklyn rock singer Tamar Kali’s “Pearl” featuring the rapper
Design Short
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhzd1vgtBk Time to promote some continental filmmakers again. The young ones. The organizers of Design Indaba,
Music Break
[vodpod id=Video.5675225&w=500&h=411&fv=] Amoeba is a landmark record store in Berkeley (on Telegraph). Now they have branches
Dictators and Pop Stars
A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.
The Smiling Faces of Young Africans
When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture' any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke's film "Kengere" - using puppets - tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda's civil war.
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Everybody take out your bicycles
An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.
Gay in Africa
Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.