Following the release of “Love and Death”, Ebo Taylor is touring in Europe these days. Although the album was recorded with the Berlin-based Afrobeat Academy, during this tour he is backed by Bonze Konkoma. Don’t miss it. The above video was shot in January 2010 during a string of performances with the Afrobeat Academy in […]

http://vimeo.com/18671156 Zimbabwean rapper/MC/poet UpMost aka My Brother’s Keeper shares his ‘Lost for Words’, recorded in Harare by Magee McIlvaine for Nomadic Wax. – Tom Devriendt

The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was known for his work on African identity in the Caribbean and on French colonialism. He was also a poet. He died yesterday, aged 83, in Paris. The video, above, is an extract of a film, “Making History,” with Glissant and […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCjZ6gThyY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for the Dominican merengue singer, Rita Indiana‘s “El Juidero,” the title track of her October 2010 release. The video for the song (a narrative about escaping to Puerto Rico), “… plays like a short film, a 1970s crime movie fantasy with heavy doses of “El Malo”-era Fania style, real-life Dominican political intrigue,” […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the hand through some of the better known museums around the world. There’s the Tate Britain and The National Gallery in London, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Uffizi in Florence. There’s Prague, Berlin, Washington […]

The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how [Hosni Mubarak] will pluck us and hunt us down one by one till we are over and done with and 8 months from now will pay people to stage fake protests urging him not to leave power, and he […]

Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.

Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in “The Nation”–that’s still worth repeating–on Black History Month (that’s every February here in the US). … So much of Black History Month takes place in the passive voice. Leaders “get assassinated,” patrons “are refused” service, women “are ejected” from public transport. So the objects of […]

Dutch website profiles Harlem-based singer Somi (of Rwandan and Ugadan descent, raised in downstate Illinois).

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7-T50Lr3A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Salif Keita performs his standard “Folon” live on Dutch TV in March 2010.

Overheard: “At least he will introduce the Egyptians to the form-fitting black t-shirt.” “If the Egyptians I know in New York City are any guide, the form fitting black t is not going to be a revelation … He should fit right in.” Watch Al Jazeera English instead. Here.