http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdU5R7ywQ4

It must be the weather. Something (“Everlasting Gobstopper,” released in 2008) from the brothers, Daniel and

Hosni Mubarak is gone. The hard questions–that Omar Suleiman and the military stand aside for an

The 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick “Commando” is narrated–“shot for shot”–by a 9-year old Tanzanian boy. (The

The Chicago-born jazz musician Matana Roberts, performing live in London late last year. If you don’t

The trailer for “Black Butterflies,” the new Dutch film about the 1960s Afrikaans writer, Ingrid Jonker,

This is from a minute ago, but I had to post it as it features part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwrpX3wMD2o The music video for a new song by Nigerian rapper/R&B singer D’Banj featuring Snoop Dogg

http://vimeo.com/19132287 Video of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra performing live January 21, 2011, in New York City.

[vodpod id=Video.5523753&w=500&h=411&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffr.player-feed.previewnetworks.com%2Fv3.1%2Fcinema%2F5444%2F331100125-1%2F] Director Pascale Lamche’s got some help from Peter Mukurube (that’s him putting Sepp Blatter

Cape Town/Atlanta singer Lindiwe Suttle and Abbot Network, performing “Sweet like Butta,” for the online Taxijam

Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary. I

A graphic novel probably doesn’t come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing’s City of

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here’s Moody in 1989–live with Dizzy

[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing “Music Man” on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977.

Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and M-1

NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go

Following the release of “Love and Death”, Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days. Although

http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his ‘Lost for Words’, recorded in Harare

The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was known