Brit-Ugandan singer Michael Kiwanuka (featured here before), who sounds like James Taylor, performs two of his songs — ‘I’m Gettting Ready’ and ‘Tell Me A Tale’ — on the British TV show, “Later with Jools Holland”:

Talking about running: some ad people can make any city look good.

At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film “Atletu” (The Athlete) was screened to a sold-out audience. Directed by Rasselas Lakew and Davey Frankel, it is a portrayal of Abebe Bikila, the Ethiopian runner who won two Olympic marathons in a row, and broke the world record in Rome […]

Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul‘s images of life there–mostly among the town’s white inhabitants–has just won him first place in the Italian Winephoto 2011 photo competition. Here’s some samples from his winning series:

71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work related to Africa below. All speak for themselves, except maybe for the last one in which Belgian politician Bart De Wever (leader of the country’s biggest party) tells the man at his feet to “take his own responsibility” (a […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Q10g_Mov4&w=600&h=349] From an episode of American comedian Drew Carey’s sketch comedy show, “Whose Line is it Anyway.” In the video from the show, Carey introduces a regular feature, “African Chant” (the sketch involves the actors making up “an African chant” based on the name of an audience member. Some of you may recognize Wayne Brady in the clip.) Carey […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik’n) clearly had fun producing their We Luv New York album this year. They make videos too. We’ll give you a full translation of the lyrics another day; let’s say they puncture the glary images of the French Riviera nicely.