Africa Is a Country

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition

By
Tom Devriendt

5 for le weekend.

“Propaganda” one of a series of songs/videos made by The King’s Will –one half of the UK duo is Musa Okwonga, whose family migrated from Uganda. The song is a homage to PR and advertising pioneer Edward Bernays:

M.E.D.’s “Blaxican.” L.A. identity politics:

A scene from “Coz Ov Moni,” “the world’s first pidgen musical” by Ghanaian duo Fokn Bois. They’ve been posting clips from the film on Youtube. This is the most recent one in the last few days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ETwfWFX9JU

Clips one and two here and here.

A parody of rapper Drake’s “Up All Night” by Toronto-based Nigerian Femi Lawson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9p7UWx5NH0

Sweden and Senegal collaborate. Sousou and Maher Sissoko:

Video for “Rain On My Lips” by rapper Pepe Haze (Burundian) and singer Steph McKee (Kenyan). They’re based in Nairobi, Kenya. The video is described as “the first ever African music video that is entirely in stop motion animation.”

See you Monday.

H/T: Kweligee and Welfare State of Mind.

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.