There’s plenty to choose from what musicians have been releasing during the holidays. So here’s a first selection of ten new videos that we’ve found in our inbox. First up, a new release from Akwaaba: Joey le Soldat, like his man Art Melody, raps on Burkina Faso’s ills:
Mainstream Western media outlets are only now learning to recognize and value diverse and creative African phenomena that have thrived for years.
Apartheid's prisons tolerated 'National Geographic; For Nelson Mandela, who knew better, it was porn.
"Unlikely Sports Heroes" partially serves to reinforce the image of inferiority. They never actually win anything.
Everything that is wrong with Adam Gopnik's New Yorker essay on Ellington (and the Beatles).
Before Eusebio, it was unthinkable for a European national team to be dominated by or build around players of African origin.
A very subjective list of the top ten films of 2013.
I’ve had Shane Cooper’s “Oscillations” in my possession for the past four months. From the onset, it was clear that it wasn’t music I’d be content with listening passively to. It was necessary for me to live with it; to let it disturb me and put me in a state of unrest. This I did because […]
The Senegalese director, Khady Sylla, made films out of the impossible and the untranslatable.
We have no illusions about Sandler having a responsibility to create smart cinema.
The Johannesburg-based crew challenges the status quo in South Africa with dance.
How does one hold on to a deeply rooted sense of self, a cultural identity, and make new paths to adapt and make new forms of home?
The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.
Few rappers on the continent have been as prolific as Sarkodie this year. The Ghanaian emcee has released a steady stream of songs and videos, all in the lead-up to his album which will be titled Sarkology. So we found it necessary to touch base with him during a video shoot in Johannesburg for “Pon […]
Martin Scorsese digitally restores Djibril Diop Mambéty’s masterpiece Touki Bouki.
A Kenyan film asks in order to evolve, what part of ourselves do we keep and what part do we leave behind.
A playlist of jazz tunes dedicated to South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.
Are corporate entities really well intentioned in celebrating Mandela the freedom fighter or are they merely using these tributes to position their brands on the right side of history?
Netta Kornberg watch film trailers so you don't have to: This time, Namibian short films are the focus of her #TrailerTakedown.
For the author, watching memorials for Mandela, South Africans have lost their ability to generate theater, the theater of the mass event.