10 new music videos to finish this week of blogging. Here’s a first video by photographer and graphic designer Laurent Seroussi for Salif Keita’s new Tale album, produced by Gotan Project’s Philippe Cohen-Solal: Vimeo clip above. (The YouTube version of the clip seems not to be available everywhere. Weird Record Label Thinking.) Next, a glorious video for Carlou D’s “Dooley Beuré” that switches into second gear halfway in (Carlou D, of Positive Black Soul fame, talks a bit about the making of the video here): 

Faada Freddy (real name: Abdou Fatha Seck, 1/3rd of Senegalese rap combo Daara J) jamming on “Borom bi” with the Clef de Sol choir:

A music video Didier Awadi shot for “Supa Ndaanaa” during a tour organized by the people behind The United States of Africa documentary in Canada last summer. There are plans for Awadi to return to Canada with his musicians later this year:

Napoleon Da Legend’s got a new video out (here), but the one below’s from last year: he was born in Paris (to parents from the Comoros), later moved to New York which, by infallible Afropolitan logics, makes him an “African in New York”:

Rock’n’raï (whoever coined that term?) by Algerian-French Rachid Taha. For accolades, check his official — hilariously puff-toned — profile. This English and Arabic duet cover version (feat. Jeanne Added) of Elvis Presley’s “Now Or Never” is a polished but intriguing production:

Samba Touré introduces his new EP, ‘Albala’, recorded at Studio Mali in Bamako in the autumn of 2012. Also featuring are Djimé Sissoko and Madou Sanogo, with guests such as Zoumana Tereta and Aminata Wassidje Traore:

Petite Noir and his band played a session for a Brussels radio, in one of the city’s most respected venues (Brussels’ the city where he was born before moving to South Africa):

Just in case you still had any doubt, 2013 will be Laura Mvula’s year:

And here’s Yassiin Bey looking sharp at The Shrine (Chicago):

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.