Everybody take out your bicycles
An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.
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Africa Is a Country
From the Ministry of Information.
The Murder of David Kato
This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu’s murder.
Teju Cole's 'Open City'
The writer Teju Cole (remember him from the Africa's World Cup panel at The New School
What do leftists make of Wikileaks?
Not everyone is so taken with what Wikileaks has wrought. I'd be curious to hear what
The Good Guys
This film “Mugabe and the White African,” is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.
The Nigerian senator and his 13 year old bride
Apart from the Nigerian media and a BBC story this has not had much traction. It
Cornel West speaks on Jane Austen
It's worth the price of admission to hear Cornel West say of the conservative British author--with
Guru, 1963-2010
The brilliant rapper Guru, who also recorded as Gang Starr (with his music partner, the equally
Wole Soyinka Loves Bean Pies
Africa’s first Nobel literature laureate is accused of Islamophobia. It is not his first time.