NEW MUJAVA!
He had the biggest song last year in both Southern African and British clubs last year with Township Funk spawning an amazing remix album with the likes of Boy 8 Bit, Ikonika, and Diplo. This is the follow up.
Video: Wale’s “My Sweetie” « AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
This song is so good. I’m basically crazy for any music video set at a house party.
Our big announcement today is that we are launching Maps domains for 30 countries across Africa. So what’s on offer? As well as searching online Maps for towns, highways, or roads, Google Maps users can now find local businesses. This could be a burger place in Lagos, a garage in Kampala, a hairdresser in Accra or an airport shuttle in Dakar
After hearing about the coup in sounds-like-Nigeria Niger last Thursday morning, I decided to run a little experiment to see how many mainstream media sources would report a coup in totally-different-country-from-Niger Nigeria. I set up a Google Alert for “coup Nigeria” and waited to see how many hits it would return.
For thousands of Zimbabweans who flee their troubled country, the Methodist church in downtown Johannesburg is the only home they know. After five years with up to 2000 people a night sleeping on pews, floors and stairwells, the church is now overcrowded, filthy and reeking due to inadequate sanitation — decidedly not the image that South Africa wants to present during the World Cup. (via iafrica.com | news | features No place to call home)(via abbyjean)
Scarlett Lion | Photographer from Mali wins one of the World Press Awards
HEY, go listen to this fascinating interview with Candace Keller “on her research on West African photographers, cultural histories, identities and aesthetics from the 1940s up to the present” over at the Africa Past and Present Podcast.
War, war, war. Stand up … and defend yourselves. Kill before they kill you. Slaughter before they slaughter you. Dump them in a pit before they dump you.
one of the text messages circulated in Nigeria during the Muslim/Christian violence in Jos that killed hundreds. Via IAfrica, who comments that “the communication infrastructure has played a part in all major cases of recent atrocities in Africa… in transmitting vile messages.” (via abbyjean)
Obviously this is horrible but it doesn’t make sense to blame communication technology for conflict. Cell-phones are integral to African banking, media and family life. Of course it’s going to “play a part” in violence as well.
Congolese Space Program "A Great Success" // Current
Apparently the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a space program complete with rat astronauts. I’m feeling a little mixed about this. While I appreciate the hobbyist DIY nature of no budget space exploration, I can’t help but feel a little frustrated by the whole thing.
It reminds me a little of the slightly more successful Zairean Nuclear program written about in Howard French’s A Continent for the Taking.
via Congo Siasa
The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra « AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
I would like to see this.
