14-minute clip from a recent TV profile by Norwegian television of a visit by Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah to Norway. I never imagined book TV could look this good and informative.

Three Kenyan videos to remember today’s Independence Day. Three popular tunes for our Independence meme. A ‘celebration’ of sorts turned out to be a useful lead for the first two. Madtraxx’s ‘Ida Waiter’ (with a nod to South African kwaito and that Prodigy video):

In a recent video interview (first spotted on film blog Shadow and Act), Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu revealed her participation in an exciting new film initiative  ImagiNations. Under the helm of South African producer Steve Markovitz, the producer of hit Congolese film ‘Viva Riva!‘ (2010) and producer of Kahiu’s own sci-fi short ‘Pumzi’ (2009), […]

About a week ago, the International Criminal Court announced that Fatou Bensouda would succeed Luis Moreno Ocampo as Chief Prosecutor. This could be big news, but you wouldn’t know it from The New York Times, who barely reported the announcement. Fatou Bensouda is from Gambia. And she means business. Some people think she may be exactly what […]

The Dutch ‘Stop Aids Now!’ campaigns have a long tradition of appealing to potential donors in Holland’s streets. November and December are the months the posters and TV ads pop up (around World Aids Day on December 1, coinciding with the arrival of Saint Nicholas and his Black Petes, and the ensuing spending spree) — […]

We like stylish Rwandese-Brooklyn singer Iyadede‘s take (in French) on the Theophilus London song “Flying Overseas.”  His verses (in English) are retained unchanged in Iyadede’s cover.  The video also visits some of the sites of Brooklyn. (Yes, there’s some Manhattan in there.)  The Brooklyn tourism bureau should pay the makers of the video. And if […]

This video for Raashan Ahmad left me wondering why I have never taken the train to Poland. It was recorded in Poznań, while Ahmad was on tour there recently.

By midday today almost 120,000 people had viewed the video of 2-year old Khaliyl Iloyi, the son of rappers Roucheon Iloyi and Femi Iloyi (aka smooflow). His parents together form British rap group Royal Priesthood. The fellow rapper in the video with Khaliyl is Alim Kamara. I agree with Boima: little Khaliyl makes more sense […]

It could have been just another dull TV ad featuring an Inca boy, Maori warriors, or Maasai dancers–heck, why not throw them all in there–and filed as such in the archives of car-plows-through-exotic-river-bed commercials.