I’m cheating. This spot is usually for blogs technically. But Buni TV, a web and mobile video channel, is too good and long overdue an idea to pass up. It’s an aggregation of innovative content you’re more likely to find off the beaten path of mainstream entertainment. It doesn’t say anything about curating just content from Africa, and it is brand new but so far that’s where the content appears [...]
I peeped this recording for Channel 4′s Random Acts via the homies at Pinboard and had to share the goodness. Tawiah is something of an obsession of mine. (If you missed it, her free EP from Christmas past does not get old) Also, I love it when food is used as endearment. Like here where Ghostpoet (real name Obaro Ejimiwe) says, “I love you like chicken soup, some biscuits and lemonade.” To [...]
Guest blog by Cathy Phiri Shuga: Love, Sex, Money has been in the pipeline for two years, and this past week, all that hard-work culminated in the star-studded premiere at the National Museum in Nairobi. But before the premiere, there was still the title track music video and the wrap show to be done. Music has always been a strong part of the Shuga series. This year MTV commissioned Bon’eye [...]
As promised, the title track for Shuga: Love, Sex and Money, MTV’s series and multimedia campaign designed to promote messages about safe sex and tolerance to African youth with the aim of changing their attitudes to risky sexual behaviours. It airs weekly in Africa from 14 February 2012 on MTV Base (DStv channel 322) at 20:30 WAT/ 21:30 CAT/ 22:30 WAT. There will be six episodes followed by a discussion episode where the issues [...]
Joelle Kayembe has posed for GQ, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, FHM and Sports Illustrated amongst other renowned publications. You might also recognise her from Ludacris’ Pimpin All Over The World video. The Congolese-born, South African beauty will now be known as the face of Trace, the international media brand available in 160 countries. Joelle will appear in jingles on all TRACE channels worldwide (TRACE Urban, TRACE Sports, TRACE Africa and TRACE Tropical) [...]
Nigerian video director Clarence Peters made another winner. The clip for Bez’s nostalgic song produced by Cobhams (Asa) gets a world-wide premiere on BET’s popular music countdown program 106 and Park tonight (Tuesday 31 January 2012 7pm GMT/ 9pm CAT), making it the first African ever to do so. Watch the behind the scenes clip below
Nigerian artists Banky W and WizKid, South African rapper L-Tido and Bonie from P-Unit (Kenya) have been commissioned to write and perform the title track for Shuga: Love, Sex, Money - the second series of the sex and relationships drama set in Kenya. Star Nigerian music video director Clarence Peters will fly into Kenya in early February with Banky W, WizKid and L Tido to record the music video for the track. Banky W and WizKid are also making cameo appearances in the TV drama [...]
Trevor Noah, the young South African comedian who has built his stock in trade on telling uncomfortable jokes about race, was great on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. If I want to tell someone I admire them, but then slap them afterwards, like he did, this would be my time to do it. He made us laugh, and he made us proud. He almost didn’t embarrass us. [...]
Critics lamented the lack of satire on South African television, while nostalgics continued to hope for the return of the short-lived cult comedy series, the Pure Monate Show. And then along came Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola. A veteran before the age of thirty, Gola’s satirical bulletin had South Africans laughing at the antics of local and international politicians. In between the laughs there were also aha moments as [...]
Young panelists from Africa get to know multi-platinum singer Alicia Keys in a one-to-one arranged by MTV Base Africa
