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Flying back from Dakar and Bamako to my home near "Little Senegal," I snatched up Courrier International's special issue "Afrique 3.0″ while passing through Paris. Tom made a quick survey of it just as it hit the newstands. Now that we've had a little more time to spend with it, what to make of it? [...]
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What has murdered Black Consciousness activist Steve Bantu Biko to do with the beginning of spring in the Netherlands? Don't worry, you didn't miss anything in school. Steve Biko has indeed nothing to do with the new season here whatsoever. Still, this didn't stop a bunch of yuppies and hipsters to organize a party in [...]
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"I Sing the Desert Electric" is a collection of video material shot over the past three years by Sahel Sounds founder Christopher Kirkley in different locations in the Western Sahel (Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria), representing distinct and highly regionalized musical scenes. The result is a short visual and aural feast. If you want to know more, Kirkley recently [...]
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10 new music videos to finish this week of blogging. Here's a first video by photographer and graphic designer Laurent Seroussi for Salif Keita's new Tale album, produced by Gotan Project's Philippe Cohen-Solal: Vimeo clip above. (The YouTube version of the clip seems not to be available everywhere. Weird Record Label Thinking.) Next, a glorious video for [...]
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"In Africa today, musicians keep in touch with global pop culture via the Internet and program locally flavoured music of explosive creativity, which in turn often finds its way back into the western world: powerful, urban and contemporary club music." This sentence captured my attention while I was reading the Ten Cities brochure. Ten Cities [...]
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South African actress/singer/writer Masello Motana has had a career in the entertainment business that many would envy. She has played a leading role in a number of South African television shows as well as in a mainstream feature film. Her poems have been published in several anthologies in that country and she regularly amazes audiences [...]
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On the first of July this year the Netherlands are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the abolishment of slavery in their former colonies Suriname and their dependencies: the Dutch Antilles. The mayor of Amsterdam considered it a good time for a celebration. So he decided to think big and invited the US First Lady Michelle Obama, [...]
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Mickey Mouse is pulling apart a bomb: inside is the torso of George W. Bush, and they're both looking perfectly happy about the whole thing. Soraya Morayef is taking a photo of the wall where these figures are painted, on a busy street in downtown Cairo, when a man walks up to her and asks [...]
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Mickey Mouse is pulling apart a bomb: inside is the torso of George W. Bush, and they're both looking perfectly happy about the whole thing. Soraya Moreyef is taking a photo of the wall where these figures are painted, on a busy street in downtown Cairo, when a man walks up to her and asks [...]
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5 new documentaries this week. Crop: Talking About Images is a film directed by Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke. The film, quoting its website, "reflects upon the impact of images in the Egyptian Revolution in and puts it in relation to the image politics of Egypt's leaders. Instead of showing footage from the revolution, the film is shot entirely [...]
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