These striking images of protesters on Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 1 was shot by British filmmaker Oliver Wilkins, a Cairo resident for the last 12 years. Backstory.

Cape Town/Atlanta singer Lindiwe Suttle and Abbot Network, performing “Sweet like Butta,” for the online Taxijam series. (BTW, we’ve featured Suttle on AIAC before.)

Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary. I haven’t seen the documentary yet (and I’m sure it could do without the dubious ‘heart of Africa’, ‘undiscovered’ and ‘lost heritage’) but Nkhata Bay sure sounds attractive. Especially on a Sunday afternoon. H/T: Bart Deweer

“Running Cola is Africa!” (1968), a black and white plotter drawing by Masao Kohmura, Koji Fujino, Makoto Ohtake. “A computer algorithm converts a running man into a bottle of cola, which in turn is converted into the map of Africa.” The owners are the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany. Via compArt daDA. * This is […]

A graphic novel probably doesn’t come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing’s City of Clay (“Stad van Klei”): The book follows the misadventures of civil servant Salem and his descent into madness when he starts labouring on an elaborate scheme that involves the creation of an entire imaginary town and its police force. While personally collecting the […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Uw6nIZVs&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Late last year, jazz saxophonist James Moody passed away. Here’s Moody in 1989–live with Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra–doing the tune mostly associated with his career, “Moody Mood for Love.” And if you want to know how the song came about, watch and listen here.

Yan Gross, the Swiss photographer and skateboarder–in an interview with South African journalist, Sean O’Toole, in Frieze (January/February 2011)–mocking the reaction of journalists, photographers and filmmakers, who flocked to Kampala, Uganda, after his self-published photoseries of a small group of local skateboarders, gained attention outside Uganda. “It was hard to deal with all these people. […]

[vodpod id=Video.5478025&w=500&h=411&fv=] Letta Mbulu performing “Music Man” on the American TV show, Soul Train, in 1977. (You can hear her husband, and main collaborator, Caiphas Semenya, on the backing track.)

Everyone wants in on the revolution in Egypt. Video for American rappers Jasiri X and M-1 of Dead Prez’s just released ode to the protesters in Tahrir Square.

The first weekly episode (posted on Fridays) of ‘creative Africa video blog,’ WHAT’S UP AFRICA, was posted online today. It’s the work of Radio Nederlands Worldwide Africa producer, Ikenna Azuike, who also presents. The producers are hyping it as Europe’s first video blog focused on Africa and they promise to bring us “… what’s hip, […]

NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go home when protests in Cairo turned violent [when Mubarak’s thugs attacked protesters].

We know that the Egyptian dictator has a macabre sense of humor: I am fed up. After 62 years in public service, I have had enough. I want to go [but] if I resign today, there will be chaos … I don’t care what people say about me. Right now I care about my country. […]