http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbhplk5rljc With a nod to the 1990s, one of our favorites, DJ Premier, presents “A New Female MC,” Dynasty.

Based in Pretoria, MsSupa shot and edited the video for her ‘Dreams’ herself, she tells us. She’s not pulling any punches.

L.A. singer Jimetta Rose (whom you might know from her guest vocals on Shafiq Husayn’s debut album “Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka”) at this year’s Rose Parade. It’s a Nappy Nation out there.

I’m in the suburbs of Toronto this weekend and I go to bed early nowadays (my one year old gets up at 6am), but for those in New York City tonight, go check out the monthly Made in Africa Party with Boima (remember he is also an accomplished DJ) and Lamin Fofana at CAFE NUNEZ at […]

The video for “Go Getter,” by Johannesburg’s MB featuring Malika, which I saw playing once or twice on a TV in the background (TV’s are always on in people’s houses there) while in South Africa earlier this year. Pay attention.  Here’s the refrain: “You need to let it go/go get it/go get it.” Let it […]

Earlier this week ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, including one for music during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, like the video–played at the start of broadcasts and during breaks from the studio in South Africa–featuring U2 (I prefer Bono when he sings, not when he wants to save Africa) and the Soweto […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDVUVosSgA From somewhere in American suburbia, the very frank, at times trite The Ten Minute Fix, a Youtube “talk show” series with an East African bias. Here’s the raison d’etre: “This idea was born from the sheer fact that we have professionals around us, we have good equipment around us but most importantly we just […]

Glenna Gordon’s photography focuses on a neglected angle of the Ivorian crisis–since the most recent episode of the crisis, more than 150,000 Ivoirians have fled to neighboring Liberia. Here and here.