Africa Is a Country

Sunday Bonus Music Break, N°8

Sunday Bonus Music Break, N°8

By
Tom Devriendt

Since Friday’s Special was reserved to Sierra Leone — and for archival purposes — here’s your Sunday Bonus. First up, above, from the same label that brought us Baloji, Konono N°1 and Staff Benda Billili comes a new recording by Jagwa Music: ‘Live in the Streets of Dar’ (es Salaam, Tanzania).

‘Night in Tunisia’, the opening track from Hugh Masekela’s 1974 LP ‘I am not Afraid’:

Fatoumata Diawara’s ‘Kèlè’:

Remember DJ Cleo’s FaceBook? This is the Twitter version….

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

Alabama Shakes played ‘Be Mine’ live on Jools Holland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLPMAho8K-0

From that same show: The Chieftains with Carolina Chocolate Drops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjH9QEejWA

Fuse ODG’s ‘Azonto’ gets a make-over:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rowlq0iMy-Q

YaoBobby’s deceptively naïve ‘Mémoire d’un continent’:

Blood Orange’s Champagne Coast went viral this week. We can see why:

The Very Best return after a long silence with ‘Yoshua Alikuti’:

And an interesting music video filming singer Jimetta Rosa at her actual job:

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.