It is the time for summer lists
A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.
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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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxLVnn7KxfU Some new Ghanaian hiplife from PAPPYKOJO.
The Dinka Brigade
From a series by photographer Pete Miller (remember him?) of Dinka cattle raiders in Southern Sudan
Jadakiss and the King
Hip hop is usually associated with revolution and counter culture. But American artists, who visit the content, usually side with power. Like Jadakiss did in Swaziland
Music Break
The old lion of Zimbabwean liberation music, Thomas Maphumo, and his band, The Blacks Unlimited, play
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.
Tartan Army
Kathleen Madden, in Artforum, on Zwelethu Mthethwa's 2010 series "The Braves Ones," showing through July 17th
Dakar Hustle
http://vimeo.com/20927993 Video for spoken word from Senegalese rapper Keyti--remember him? Keyti was one of the stars
Pseudo-cosmopolitanism
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I9D2yDCfc&NR=1 Rapper Stalley, late last year, channels Muhammed Ali. He could have done without the racial
The Russian connection
Soviet cinema had a major impact on the narratives, styles, and tone of African filmmakers.
'The Nigerian Nostalgia Project'
This Facebook group page is worth visiting. The administrators collect photographs, including video and sound bytes, "... depicting
Slipping into individualistic comfort
The daily word of inspiration (cut and pasted from Contemporary Literature) from my favorite, comtemporary Communist,
Pleasurable Music
The second lives of Faaji Agba, a collective of octogenarian Nigerian musicians who perform a mix of Nigerians’ favorite genres.
The inequality of news
Simon Kuper in the FT Weekend, takes shots at "the news," maybe also at his own