Here it is, your live stream of “If you can’t see me, are you really there?” concert series from Coffeebeans Routes headquarters in Cape Town. Select the audio or video stream below to join the festivities: LIVE VIDEO STREAMING by Ustream LIVE AUDIO ONLY STREAM ON Mixlr
Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for June 2015.
Every so often efforts are made to justify the world’s obsession with football by casting it as an engine for social development. Football is touted as having the potential to break down barriers between Palestinians and Israelis (Sepp Blatter boasted along these lines last month), football will improve health, reign in street children, pacify gangs […]
In the lead up to his summer event series in New York, Osekre ran down his experience as a struggling musician in the city that never sleeps. ‘Afropolitan presents’ will take place again at Meridian23 this Friday, June 26th in New York. For it, we are featuring a post from another one of the participating artists, this time […]
Takun J stirs the Liberian streets with calls for justice and accountability.
As we announced earlier this month, Africa is a Country is teaming up with Coffeebeans Routes in Cape Town to bring you a live concert series called “If you can’t see me, are you really there?” The first edition will happen this Thursday at 19:30 Cape Town time. Visit the site at that time (use the […]
The writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.
Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western gaze, the other perpetuating it.
In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi’u, was charged with the murder of 35-year-old Umaru Sani. Wasila had been forced into marriage, and a week later, Umaru Sani died of rat poison ingestion. Despite calls from national and international women’s groups, the girl was tried in adult rather […]
In 2012, The Economist Magazine’s style blog, Prospero, featured an essay titled “War and Peace in Monrovia: Where is Liberia’s Tolstoy?”. The essay was written by a journalist who visited Liberia for research on a magazine feature about an ex-warlord running for president. While in Freetown, during what he explains was an unexpected amount of […]
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
South Carolina and the island that Haitians and Dominicans share is on our minds this weekend, so your music break reflects that. The Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters kick us off with an African folk tale from the Sea Islands; then Fatoumata Diawara bridges the distance between Charleston and Timbuktu, with a Malian Blues from the movie Timbuktu; we […]