It may be tempting to read Congolese-Belgian rapper Baloji’s music as a relatively straightforward exercise in “indigenizing” or localizing hip-hop, but the story of his transnational musical moorings — especially his ambivalence toward Congolese pop — complicates such an interpretation.
The challenge of creating anti-commercial rap in Angola: a market with bling, swag and surly sisters.
Aava DuVernay leads a movement to organize African-American film festivals and secure theatrical releases for black independent films.
Dubai can actually be a city of gems that might surprise you. Like soul musician Hamdan Al-Abri, who is of Zanzibari descent.
Number 8 in our series, Paris Is a Continent, showcasing the music of the French capital, is about bragging rights and one song.
Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.
Just a sample: A "Heart of Darkness"-themed ship, Tarzan in South Africa and a travelogue on the Congo River.
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Thandi Newton choice as a female lead in the screen adaptation of "Half of a Yellow Sun" has some people upset.
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
Afrobeats is broadly what most people think when they try to define black music in the UK. But it is hard to pin down.
There needs to be another solution than free market capitalism globally to promote artistic creativity. The experience from Sierra Leone is not encouraging.
"Afro-Spectacle," a music and film event by DJ collective, Dutty Artz, explores the working class African immigrant experiences in the city.
The clear signs of African influence on the Arabian Peninsula and the cultural fluidity that exists throughout the Indian Ocean.
A new film goes in search of the renowned architect and some of his work in Maputo, capital of Mozambique in southeast Africa.
Corporations have tried and succeeded in cashing in on the political revolutions known as the "Arab Spring." Tunisia is the latest victim.
Tunisian born artist Amel Bennys, who works between Tunis and Paris, has just had her first solo show at the Selma Feriani Gallery in London. ‘Get Up – Stand Up’ includes ‘Fin de Partie’, a series of heavy-duty mixed media works on canvas and a selection of sketch-books.
British rapper Nate sampling Hugh Masekela’s Stimela in his ‘Africa’ (for which he gets some help from Cyclonious, Dark Matter and Jalex). The video seems to have been recorded in a Gambian coastal town but I’m not quite sure which one. Bakau maybe?
Zahara has become the top pop artist in South Africa in a fairly short time but curiously enough, for the media, she has remained something of an enigma because she doesn’t appear to have any obvious unique selling points beside her talent.
‘Ya Foye’ will be on Togolese Elom 20ce’s (“Elom Vince”) album Anagezik that comes out in February. Elom calls himself a ‘contemporary griot’ and an ‘arctivist’. All of which sounds very promising.