'See me on television' (in Lesotho)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjCZaAsg3A From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs's 'Hona Joale', recorded in the
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Tom Devriendt
Tom Devriendt was an editorial board member of Africa is a Country before there was an editorial board.
Music Break. Kouyaté-Neerman
http://youtu.be/9l-HzZEwNUs We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage
Congo votes
Over the past week, it was hard to find an article published in a major international
I Remember Black Pete
Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe’s Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°2
An eclectic one. Ethiopian and Ivorian pop, Philly neo soul, Swedish and South African rap and
Music Break. YaoBobby ft. Fredy Massamba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIOwmypmwk There's a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West
Music Break. Rattex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIMT_vNtFQ8 Long after midnight, once the tourists and the party-goers have left Cape Town's Long Street,
TV Heads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ahXv7TT8k 'Kichwateli' ('TV head' < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project.
How Europe is Evolving Toward Africa
No, this is not about the anxieties of Niall Ferguson. Anthropologist John Comaroff spoke at The
Watch The Throne
South African Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) released his new album Motswafrika. It comes complete with its own politics.
Music Break. Badi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_mOvMcD5gI Remember Brussels artist Badi (BD Banx on the Héritage project or his Beasty Boys-styled video
Edgar Sekloka wrote a book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QGPTviZkw Taking up the fashionable concept of the book trailer, Edgar Sekloka, one half of French
The silence between portraits
Number 17 in our ‘Found Objects’: The short documentary, ‘Mr. Mkhize,’ by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
Music Break. The Funk League
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXD50lsRGk An older song by The Funk League, but it comes with a new video. Featuring
Music Break. Booker T. Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIB6g9uay2U Booker T. Jones on the keyboard with Jim James (of My Morning Jacket fame) singing
Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition
5 for le weekend. "Propaganda" one of a series of songs/videos made by The King's Will --one