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Music - May 8, 2013Nigeria’s greatest lyricist is back!
"The music they’re calling Nigerian now, I don’t have a clue what it is! No arrangement, no breathing..." – Bongos Ikwue
Bongos Ikwue Extensive lip service is paid to the notion of the nineteen seventies as a kind of golden age for Nigerian popular...
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Opinion - April 23, 2013Rebuilding Libya
Now is the time to define Libya as an African nation, and push for the protection of religious and linguistic diversity
Amazigh and Libya flags (Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images) The period after a political revolution in a country is arguably one of the...
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"Equity in Extractives"
Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel to launch...
The Africa Progress Panel (APP) and its Chairman, Kofi Annan , the decorated former UN Secretary General, will launch their flagship...
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Didjak Munya – "Oxygène"
Hip-swinging, soukous-fuelled Congolese hip-hop
Didjak Munya Didjak Munya has been on Kinshasa’s hip hop circuit for well over a deacade now, but Oxygène is his first...
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May 22, 2013 -Sara Mitaru feat. Bien Aime - "You Said"
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The inexhaustible subject of lost love and heartbreak is addressed by Kenyan musician and activist Sara Mitaru on "You Said" (featuring Sauti Sol member Bien Aime), an acoustic version of which you might have seen her perform a few months ago on producer Blackman's Nairobi Sessions. The song's been well received locally since its release last December, and perhaps it'll find an audience beyond Kenya now that it's got a video.
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Opinion - May 22, 2013Stop the plunder of Africa
The true cost of opaque mining deals in Africa (FTSE-100-listed companies cost the DRC $1.4bn)
Miners form a human chain while gold mining the the Congo (Photo: REUTERS Finbarr...
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Opinion - May 21, 2013Boda-boda riders
Rebels with a cause: love to hate them, hate to need them
The cars waiting at the traffic lights are like rectangular islands in a sea of...
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Opinion - May 13, 2013Whose Spring? Amazigh Spring!
Who gets to define the Algerian state, regimes with a pan-Arabist and Islamic ideology or the Amazigh?
On April 20th, thousands of people marched in the streets of Tizi Ouzou in Algeria...
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From Mr. Kofi Annan to Africa
We, Africans, must do much more… this is OUR continent
Mr. Kofi Annan Chairman of the Africa Progress Panel (APP) and fellow panel members will launch the Africa...
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Africans and African Americans
The ignorance, prejudices and stereotypes that keep us divided
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May 16, 2013Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (An exhibition)
Bob Gosani Rise and Fall of Apartheid is a photo-art exhibition currently...
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April 29, 2013“Oya: Rise of the Orisha”
Yoruba deities as movie superheroes
Three Orisha Oya: Rise of the Orisha is an upcoming feature film that blends the...
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April 25, 2013Hair Your Way
The Politics of Negro Gals’ Hair
Sisterlocks “Spiritual” is what he said my hair makes me look. Then, he...
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April 24, 2013Taiye Selasi: the burden of shame
West Africans migrants feel that if we haven’t succeeded, we don’t deserve love, or home, and that’s not true.
Taiye Selasi in Lomé, Togo. (Photograph - Taneisha Kamali Berg 2012) Taiye...
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April 11, 2013Morocco’s Identity Crisis
Decolonisation: African Jews and the Politics of Religious Pluralism
On Saturday April 7, the American Islamic Congress sponsored a celebration of the...
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April 10, 2013TWERK: Booty-dancing, gender politics & white privilege
Resisting the historical tradition of claiming and degrading Black women’s bodies
Booty-popping Recently, Miley Cyrus, who I can't believe is 20 years old, released...
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April 9, 2013Nollywood: sexism and misogyny
If Nollywood reflects Nigerian society, what does it say about how we see women?
In my estimation, most Nigerians either love or hate Nollywood , with not too many...
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April 2, 2013“Made in Africa”
How much do we value this label in fashion?
The manufacturing origin of any item of clothing comes with baggage: associations and...
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Zion80: Jewish music meets Fela Kuti's Afrobeat
Zion80 Jewish Afrobeat? Why not? Afrobeat emerged from Nigeria while Israel, the homeland of Jewish people, is way over in the Middle East, but culturally, the two countries might not be that far apart: there are those who believe a particular group of Igbo s from Nigeria might be a lost tribe of Israel (throughout history, large populations of dispersed Jews became "lost" through forced conversions and cultural assimilation). more >
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"Heart of Light" - DJ Zhao's Classic African Rumba and Soukous mix
“Heart of Light” , the last words uttered publicly by democratically elected president Patrice Lumumba at his inauguration address, 3 months before his murder by Belgium and CIA because he dared to oppose the Western global forces of oppression and planned to keep the wealth of the Congo for the Congo. Freedom and hope was killed in 1961, with disastrous consequences, but The Heart of Light can never die… more >
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