Magazine FAST COMPANY continues the popularity lists with its “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Like I said with the announcement of TIME’s 100 List, there is nothing rigorous to these lists. One African made this year’s list: the young capitalist, June Arunga (the link is to pop-up profile on... [view entry]

Tomorrow, on the 27th May, will mark the first day in a New York City court for oil company Shell where it faces charges of human rights violations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. This includes the explosive charge that Shell sought the aid of the Nigerian dictatorship of Sani Abacha to... [view entry]

postapartheid class/race politics among South Africa’s black majority. By Fireworx Media for TraceTV [view entry]

“Hello Africa,” 46 minute documentary about the mobile phone revolution in Africa (this is the full documentary), made by the Austrian outfit, ICT4D.at, produced by Swedish magazine, UZI. The film is really about Zanzibar. I watched it online this weekend. Nice thick description of the impact (social, political and economic)... [view entry]

From the (South African) Mail & Guardian: “African governments are not noted for their sense of humour: the SABC has mothballed a … satirical puppet show, Z News, by political cartoonist Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro. South African President Jacob Zuma has lodged two lawsuits against Shapiro’s cartoons already. In Egypt, blogger... [view entry]

That’s the English translation of this track’s Xhosa title, “Nqayi.” A collaboration between Rio de Janiero’s well-traveled DJ Maga Bo and Cape Town’s own, Teba, the song is off Maga Bo’s recently released album, “Archipelagoes.” The video was filmed in Guguletu, a township on Cape Town’s Cape Flats. (The album... [view entry]

Kagablog features a long post by brothers Greer Valley and Dylan Valley about Afrikaans hip hop. The piece name-checks Jitsvinger (that’s him in a live performance on hip hop radio in Switzerland with Crosby, another Cape Town MC,), Terror MC, Jaak, Lee-Ursus (who now lives in Brooklyn, NY), and the... [view entry]

Video of interview by Jason Bentley, host of “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on the Southern Californian public radio station, KCRW, with the members of one of my favorite bands, the Kenyan-American super band, Extra Golden. Extra Golden play a hybrid of Kenyan benga music and American rock music. The interview opens... [view entry]

PR shot from reality TV producer Mark Burnett’s (credits: “Survivor” and “The Apprentice”) latest venture, “Expedition Africa: Stanley and Livingstone” that sends “… a team of high-energy, frequently fractious, quasi-professional explorers on a trip to recreate [Henry] Stanley’s 1871 journey to find [David] Livingstone, the lost titan of African exploration.”... [view entry]

CNN’s weekly feature on Africa, “Inside Africa,” recently did a short feature on The New York African Film Festival. Clips and interviews with film directors Michael Raeburn, Xoliswa Sithole, Lupito Nyong’o and festival director Mahen Bonetti. (Mahen, by the way, remains a tireless champion for African film in New York... [view entry]