Goksin Sipahioglu
One of the highlights of a recent trip to Istanbul--dominated by run-ins with operatives of a
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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.
'More Time'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL1rmcI-eY&w=560&h=349] Linton Kwesi Johnson exhorting us to slow down a bit.
Africa Day
The Very Best--a collaboration of Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit--has a new mixtape. It came out a few
Perspective on 2011 SA Local Elections
If you're tired of the nonsense published in The New York Times or on the BBC
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgZEklDuF8 Some catchy, and barely tolerable, pop from JR--remember him from the kwaiti/dance hit 'Make the
Vote for Toilets
South Africans vote for new local councillors today. Once the spin and the electioneering clear, we'll
Nigeria Votes
Benedicte Kurzen's often graphic images of the recent (April 16) presidential elections in Nigeria and its
Crazy Bald Heads
Blackwater mostly recruits from former US soldiers and former soldiers from dictatorships like Apartheid South Africa
Paul Kagame Spins Youtube
Paul Kagame is a skilled media operator. Sending unprepared interviewers his way, is not how to do journalism.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDAuXE2DiM A lot of people dismiss Dominican-American pop singer George Lopez Jr, also known as Twin
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When Thelonious Monk first met Dollar Brand
By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP’s as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
Oh, Canada
Sean, AIAC’s editor, reflects, in a drive-buy fashion, on Canada’s travel rules and some reasons why Toronto is a great place to visit.
Memoirs about Africa
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor--he's written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe--and blogger, has a
Zim Ngqawana
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjlPiJlihE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a key member of the second generation of South African jazz
Some Men in South Africa
A 13-year-old South African girl is the latest victim of "corrective rape," in which men rape