Photography. Sam Buk
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The Sudan Report
Omar al-Bashir has a bigger problem than the ICC: Ordinary citizens, including the middle classes, taking to the streets against the effects of austerity on their lives.
Music. Ghostpoet
Ghostpoet (government name: Obaro Ejimiwe) raps “in the bluesy, introspective tradition of Tricky and Roots Manuva”. The video for his latest, “Liiines,” came out last month. I actually prefer the video, above, and song for “Survive It,” better.
Idi Amin, TV Star
This is also Found Object, Number 15 as Uganda’s dictator Idi Amin Dada on his short-lived 1977 TV sketch comedy show on the American network channel, NBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG9OvVYvviQ
Music Break. Nkunkuma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcQKYdWKoY Cameroon (‘Kamer’) hip hop is churning out lots of videos lately. Like this one by Nkunkuma. A nice track, if you make it past the intro.
Contro'Versy
Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated their last show in Holland to slain rapper Mr Devious; Michael Miranda, Shaun Magmoed and Jonathan Claasen, the three youngsters who died this day 26 years ago during the Trojan Horse Massacre; and to rapper Contro’Versy, who passed away yesterday. […]