Trevor Noah’s “whole African American thing”
Throwback: What happened when Trevor Noah made his debut on American network TV.
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‘Fictional’ Cape Town
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
Nothing has Changed in Egypt
Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.
Sending South African miners home to die
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
The Mbalax President
The legendary Senegalese singer is running for president. Not everyone takes him seriously.
Young warriors of light
What is with the increasing use of sci-fi and horror elements in fairly recent music videos and films by African artists.
#OccupyNigeria
Most Nigerians don’t trust their government and overpaid public representatives with taxpayers’ money. So, they rose up.
An acute deficiency in generosity
Some journalism and "analysis" about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.
Pushing African music into the future
The Austria-based Ghanian singer, Anbuley, shows a willingness to jump on unconventional beats.
Africa’s oldest liberation movement is 100 years old
Does South Africa's ruling ANC still fight for the same values it championed 100 years ago?
10 West African Club Tracks
I’m a DJ. So it’s only right I give you ten songs that filled up my crates in 2011 to play out the year. No rankings, just the first 10 club friendly Afropop tracks I could think of: