Weekend Music Break No.77
Weekend Music Break, your weekly round up of hot tunes and music news from around the
Culture
No exoticism, no promos, just the music
The Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for May 2015.
Swaziland’s Bushfire
The Southern African country, Swaziland, is an absolute monarchy characterized by widespread oppression. It also hosts the Bushfire Music Festival.
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
Time of the pathetic hero
Andrew Miller’s a Jozi-based freelance scribe. Years spent with a muscle disease have allowed the writer
Decolonizing the University
What to do with the universities South Africa inherited from the violences of Apartheid.
Weekend Music Break No.76
We took a break last week, but we’re back experimenting with a new format. This Weekend’s Music
Was the German composer Beethoven, African?
There's even an album to advance this argument: "Beethoven Was African: Polyrhythmic Piano Sonatas."
Cape Town is Three Countries: Curatorship in times of load shedding
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
The War Story We Need Right Now
The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.
The Afro-Anarchist’s Guide to Kendrick Lamar
On "To Pimp a Butterfly," is Kendrick being ironic when he wonders "How Much a Dollar Cost"?
Africa is a Country teams up with Coffebeans Routes to present a Cape Town concert series.
This month we will be kicking off a special partnership with Coffeebeans Routes to bring you a
Lucky Bastard
Osekre, whose music is a blend of Afrobeat and ska, on the trials and tribulations of being an African musician in New York City
In the time of xenophobia
The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.
Angolan Cinemas: Past and Present Tense
Cultural spaces and historic patrimony have not fared well during Angola's post-war reconstruction and development.
Kassav, and Jozi’s love for zouk
Kassav are a band formed in Paris in ’79. They were in Johannesburg recently, where they
The Venice Biennale and the problem of nationalism
Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World's Futures” is a radical attempt at shifting the paradigms of biennale models to create a more democratic society of artists and exhibition spaces.
The Adventures Of Uno July
South African hip hop audiences blatantly ignore Ill Skillz’ craft because they're from Cape Town.
The Chronic Sketches “A New Cartography”
The latest issue of the Chronic, a quarterly gazette offshoot of the “project-based mutable object” that
The limits of debunking only the pseudoscience of race
What a very white book launch in a very black neighborhood in downtown Johannesburg reveals.