Snoop Dogg's Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwrpX3wMD2o The music video for a new song by Nigerian rapper/R&B singer D’Banj featuring Snoop Dogg
Nigeria
People who have lost the habit of ruling themselves
Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.
T.I.A. (Nollywood Edition)
Nollywood film posters in a store window on Nostrand Ave. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
Short Films: The African Immigrant Life in New York City
For the final assignment of a class I teach on Media and Africa at The New
Gaddafi’s voluptuous Ukranian nurse
On the usefulness of WikiLeaks and the self-destructive personality of its founder, Julian Assange.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riYn1SozWo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The young Lagos, Nigeria-band Che and the Continuous Highlife Evolution’s striking “Civil War.” As the
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNFRVmtz1GA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African artist Lesego Rampolokeng, who grew up in Soweto, performing his “Fela Sermon” live
New cartoon reps urban West Africa
By Allison Swank One of the first of its kind out of West Africa, the new
The Waka Waka Award*
This may yet become a weekly award on AIAC. The inaugural Waka Waka Award–name in honor
Clichés and Social Truths
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTVDDrUS4Y&w=500&=307&rel=0] I’d be interested in people’s reading of this short video spotted on Youtube, above, which
’10 things you can learn from a Nigerian’
“One in five Africans is Nigerian and they certainly represent throughout the Diaspora. Much of the
Asa – Be My Man
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNUgJMDsOuY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] If you don’t notice the awkward “acting” at the outset of this music video and
Uncle Wole’s Party
Last month Johannesburg filmmaker Akin Omotoso, who directed a documentary about Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka,
Cricket is big in Nigeria
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
The Nollywood Recipe
Nigerian director and producer, Ade Adepegba, speaking ahead of the new film festival, Nollywood Now–apparently the
African 'World Music'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mHMWO_-mM&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Nigerian superstars P-Square doing “Do Me.” This is not your average world music band.
Who Cares?*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uvUZbUwOiA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Shocker. Children don’t always look like their parents. (Unfortunately not everyone got the memo that
(S)hell in the Niger Delta
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11804108 w=500&h=281] Powerful Amnesty International spot for its campaign around conditions in Nigeria’s Niger Delta where
After the Bulldozers
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11738776 w=500&h=281] Beautifully shot short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving