Okay we’re a day late. (It’s Sean’s fault.) Happy Indpendence Day Nigeria. Your music industry is too large and prolific and dominant across the continent and the globe to sum up in a few videos, but here’s an idea: Neo-Juju [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEkG6EswH2w&w=600&h=369]
Our latest Weekend Special includes a lot of football (soccer) and that the United States is “the most Africanized nation in the Western world.”
The period video for the recently released “Classic” by MED, featuring Talib Kweli.
“Before they lay your body down / you got to change the world before you six feet under the ground.”
Takun J, the leading proponent of the Liberian music genre, breaks down its essence for a group of visiting journalism students from Syracuse University.
It’s been a long time coming. The case that was opened in 2007 by Bienvenu Mbutu Mondono against the publishers of Hergé’s ‘Tintin in the Congo’ (published in some languages as ‘Tintin in Africa’) finally got its hearing at the Brussels court yesterday. “The problem is not Hergé’s,” Mondono’s lawyer told the press. “The problem […]
Nelson and Winnie Mandela's descendants fought apartheid for the right to make a reality TV show and South Africans fought for the right see it.
Equatorial Guinea's longtime head of state, Teodoro Obiang, wants to buy legitimacy internationally. Will he succeed?
Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.
It was Core Wreckah who first put us on to Lesotho rapper Kommanda Obbs a while ago. Asked for some background about this video, Kommanda tells us that “Ts’epe was shot in the mountainous villages of Bela Bela and Maputsoe in Lesotho. The aim of the song is to instil confidence in youth so that […]
Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.
"Law and Order," opened its 13th season with a very transparent plot based on the Dominique Strauss Kahn rape case. It is not very good.