New track and video, above, for “O Caminho” (The Journey) by London-based rappers Mohammed Yahya (b. in Mozambique) and Fachadaz (b. in Portugal). The song is produced by Faith SFX. The lyrics, part English, part Portuguese (translation here, just scroll down) is about their “… personal struggles for a brighter future on foreign soil.”
Indeed.
Since we are on a roll with Woodstock, Cape Town, here’s a profile of graffiti artist Freddy Sam (government name: Ricky-Lee Gordon) by the same people who brought you the shaky cam and hyper-bright colors. We like it. The art and the film. Below are images (from Freddy Sam’s Flickr stream) of some of the work featured in […]
We sent 5 questions to South African comic (or graphic) artists Nathan and Andre Trantraal, known collectively as the Trantraal Brothers.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled much of the town centre that both Linton [Kwesi Johnson] and I call home. DJ Haitus.
We shouldn't be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.
Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10046418 w=500&h=281] Tunde Olaniran is hip hop. Tunde Olaniran is the son of an American mother and a Nigerian father. Tunde Olaniran lives in Flint, Michigan. This is the video for his latest single ‘Cobra.’
[vodpod id=Video.5972910&w=500&h=411&fv=videoId%3D897337827001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fvideo%253FvideoID%253D897337827001%26amp%3BplayerID%3D673564960001%26amp%3BplayerKey%3DAQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAF1454s%7E%2CQH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BdynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] Writer Teju Cole— he has a new novel, “Open City”–talks and writes about identity and immigration to The New Yorker.
Despite my skepticism about “top 10” lists, I waded through the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Society Program‘s annual rankings of the world’s top think tanks. Mainly because it says something about the political economy and ideology of knowledge. The “Global Go To Think Tank Rankings” was publicly released in late January. The authors […]
The practice of renting out Cape Town’s “scenery” and its cheaper film crews can have its misunderstandings. Take “Safe House,” the new “action thriller” starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, that’s really set in South America. I can only imagine the cliches about South America for which South Africa stands in here. Anyway it sounds […]