This is Freedom: The Mandela Reality TV Show
Nelson and Winnie Mandela's descendants fought apartheid for the right to make a reality TV show and South Africans fought for the right see it.
South Africa
Father figure
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNn2bqNSS6k&w=600&h=369] Filmmaker Kurt Orderson sent me “The Unseen Ones,” his new 19-minute musical documentary about the
Tupac Shakur in Africa
Tupac Shakur's intensity did not just appeal to just young people in the United States, but also on the continent.
You no longer need to be white to feel like a tourist in South Africa
What do you do as a South African tourist industry when the promised surge in visitors
'The Truth About Crime'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYngRIzG3Uk&w=600&h=373] “In South Africa,” anthropologist Jean Comaroff tells us in this lecture, “murder rates are held
Cape Doctor
Photo Credit: Doreen R [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/19741147″]
The Planet of Hip Hop
One of the founders of Cape Town rap music label, Pioneer Unit Records, talks about the local hip hop scene, talks about the coloured Afrikaans and Xhosa rap scene there.
Sesotho Cipher
Before moving down from Maseru to Cape Town in 2008 and exploring the Cape’s hip hop
Music Break / DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger
We liked the previous recent work by DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger. No surprise then the result
White Wedding
The internets have been rightly outraged at a white couple, “Dave and Chantal,” who decided on
Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.
Notes on the South African Experiment
Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture
The Party is not The Nation
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week—in
This Generation of African Women Leaders
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we’ve HT’d him a few times.
Pseudo-cosmopolitanism
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.
Slipping into individualistic comfort
The daily word of inspiration (cut and pasted from Contemporary Literature) from my favorite, comtemporary Communist,
The Struggle Continues
The extended Weekend Music Break honors June 16th, 1976, featuring music from young South African artists, many of whom gained recognition online.
The POWA Mixtape
Johannesburg-based Tumi of Tumi and The Volume has released a mixtape. It seems to be in