Music Break. Gasandji
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVzyFNjC-8 DRC born, France based Gasandji's "Na lingui yo."
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is publisher of Africa is a Country and on the tenured faculty of The New School. He edits the substack, Eleven Named People.
The three little pigs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xIgq13mX3A No, they're not Africans. It's just a great TV ad campaign for The Guardian newspaper.
Tuareg Nationalism
A quick survey of Western media suggests Tuareg nationalist claims don't carry the same weight as
The most influential African thinker
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa’s most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Gaddafi spoof
http://youtu.be/cYplvwBvGA4 The trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy, "The Dictator," where he plays a thinly
Serge Ibaka Has No Country
We don’t blame people those who can’t figure out their DRC from their ROC or their Kinshasa from their Brazzaville.
Necessary doses of pan-Africanism: Esperanza Spalding’s “Black Gold”
http://youtu.be/Nppb01xhfe0 It's not too late to take your vitamins. And this. Jazz bass player and bandleader
Financial Times blues
I read The Financial Times because they cover the news that is essential to capital and those who rule us. But most of time I just don't get their op-ed page.
When Rick Ross went to South Africa and Gabon
For some odd reason the latest issue of The New Yorker ran a profile of rapper
Everybody wants in on the final
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaIQpD3MdyA Some coupe decale to warm you up for the African Cup of Nations final later
Music Break. King Mensah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENNr_Mw2hNs Some mellow Togolese sounds and a sunny video.
Surfer dude
http://youtu.be/kmv4o3XHPM0 Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa,
Tech Apartheid
Our tech posts never stray from tweeting new data on Twitter and Facebook usage on the continent--but now and then--as occasional readers of Gizmodo and Kotaku--we pause.
50 Cent goes to Somalia
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to
One shot project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8DqXwojm68 This is Hache. Oh, and the DJ. And that's your music break.
Africa’s first 21st century global pop star?
Nigerian D’Banj draws big crowds on the continent and regularly plays the diaspora circuit in cities like London. Next, pop stardom.