'Suit Up'
http://vimeo.com/31434026 Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over
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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.
Music Break. Dengue Fever
http://youtu.be/5Lgy1p6mdVg A lot of music we like don't come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue
Music Break. Meklit Hadero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhwKO7AIsc Meklit Hadero (Ethiopia | US) - Singer + songwriter. Ethopian American singer, songwriter and recording
What Ugandans think of Obama’s “Special Forces”
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
Music Break. Jolly Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZoImzA5iO4 These guys remind me of Sunday afternoons at my great aunt's house in Parkwood. This
'Soccer movies about poor, brown people'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKyxDm_lCFQ&w=600&h=369] This semester I co-teach (with journalist Tony Karon) a media politics class on Global Soccer,
Photography. Alec Soth
Michael and Dominique, Detroit, Michigan. From Soth's series "Sleeping by the Mississippi."
'Julius Malema sets the cultural agenda'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kUhrBGVS8&w=600&h=369] The third season of "90 Plein Street," a scripted series about the travails of a
Photography. Nana Kofi Acquah
Ghana. Here.
Occupy Africa
http://youtu.be/FnCV2tlsDqU How do Africans--ground zero for resource extraction by the world's 1%--feel about the now global
Music Break. Alabama Shakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVSUH6_oBY I have a student (born in Texas) who insists he won't travel to or through
'The Internationale'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL8_ElpStg The always reliable Billy Bragg live on the streets of Dublin this past weekend.
Eating Staten Island Crow
New Orleans-based historian Thomas J. Adams on Occupy Wall Street: "We are the 99% [the slogan
Political theater
Judith Stein in Dissent: Despite its apparent permanence, OWS is mostly composed of part-time participants, who
Mr Balotelli
The estranged son of Ghanaian immigrants reared in Brescia wreaks havoc in Manchester: "Why always me?"