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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:32:36 -0800

The music of Marcus Wyatt
South African trumpet player. His best album for me is his second,”Africans in Space.” His latest album,...
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:14 -0800

Photography: Jamaican Dancehall Culture
From The Observer Music Monthly. Musician Gregory Isaacs in front of his African Museum store on Chancery Lane, Kingston. One...
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:25:29 -0800

White Light
You can’t make this stuff up. Although I am not surprised anymore. This is too easy. The trailer (in a smattering of...
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:04:02 -0800

The Danque!! A Compilation of West African Funk
Featuring George Danquah, Dancing The Kuri Kuri, Samahila and the S.B.S, Mustapha, Vis-a-Vis, among others. Samples via Wax...
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:57:18 -0800

The West African Obamas
Naijablog has been having fun with the “letters” written by Barack Obama’s Nigerian “cousin,”...
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:49:42 -0800

The photography of Philip Toledano
From his “Hope and Fear” Series. [If you care about what this got to do with Africa, who cares. His mother is...
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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:12:42 -0800

Barack Obama vs 50 Cent
A 10-minute short film, “Barack & Curtis,” by director Byron York, who made the excellent “Beyond Beats...
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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:47:53 -0800

Are South African politicians humorless?
In October 2008, South African politician Nhlanhla Nene fell of his chair, while being interviewed live on public television. ...
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Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:36:25 -0800

Made in China
“Show we a factory in the DRC that produces AK 47s. They don’t exist,” a UN colonel tells reporter Benjamin...
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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:18:39 -0800

The music of Buraka Som Sistema
“Buraka Som Sistema has become a European sensation, thanks to their unique take on kuduro, a strain of dance music from...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:47:33 -0800

The music of Asa (Asha)
Video for her single “Fire on the Mountain.” Posted with vodpod Sample her music...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:38:13 -0800

Lecture at Columbia: Jazz Broadcasting Under Apartheid
“You Think You Know Me…” Jazz Broadcasting Under Apartheid Gwen Ansell Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor,...
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Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:02 -0800

Study: Mbeki could have prevented 365,000 AIDS deaths between 2000 and 2005
Front page of The New York Times today: A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:08:31 -0800

Music: Abdullah Ibrahim, “reluctant teacher”
Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim talks to Philippa Kennedy in The National about musical education: Ibrahim spends so much time in...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:08:21 -0800

It wasn’t gholf
[Gary] Player’s website declares that he is “the most successful international golfer of all time.” But there...
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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:43:33 -0800

The music of Ntjapedi
Sebokeng jazz. Funk. Soul. Poetry. Sesotho. Sankomota’s children. Posted with vodpod Sample their music...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:38:25 -0800

The music of Blitz The Ambassador
Ghanaian. Brooklyn. hip hop. Sample here.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:21:21 -0800

How child-friendly is your country?
The Africa Child Policy Forum based in Addis Ababa has just released a ranking of the most child-friendly countries in Africa....
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:06:28 -0800

Everybody loves Nollywood
Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi, director of the documentary film, This is Nollywood, talking about Nollywood,...
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:01:38 -0800

Mugabespeak
Robert Mugabe’s government tells Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Graca Machel that they can’t visit the country to...
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:14:34 -0800

Full Stream of Femi Kuti’s New Album
“Day by Day” released last week — his first solo effort in seven years and dates of his North American tour...
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:00:57 -0800

The music of the daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra
Hip hop. Jazz. Funk. Sample here.
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:20:48 -0800

Jack Bauer saves African country from itself “in less time than it takes to cook a roast”
On Sunday night on Fox, Jack Bauer, that favorite fictional hero of Republican presidential candidates, rightwing Supreme Court...
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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:01:08 -0800

Writing while on Safari
A couple years ago Kenyan Binyavanga Wainaina criticized “safari reportage” by Westerners writing about Africa....
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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:43:27 -0800

Music: Youssouh N’Dour’s Great African Ball
This annual New York City institution which coincides with the American Thanksgiving Holiday is back. People dress up. It...
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