We’re kicking off our weekly online movie series with Nollywood site Afrika.am with Osuofia in London. Here’s a description from Afrika.am founder Chukwuma: One of the most popular Nollywood home videos to date and is amongst the highest grossing and best selling. Nkem Owoh plays Osuofia, married with five daughters he is a deer-hunter in his village. Indebted to many in his local community, and increasingly harassed by his creditors. [...]
Possibly the most talked about young act from South Africa over the past 18 months, Blk Jks rounds off their international media blitz with an acoustic live performance at one of Spin Magazine’s awesome Spin Sessions. Tracks include Lakeside and Standby from their debut album After Robots. Click here for a front row view.
Kae Sun is a Canadian-based Ghanaian singer who is breaking onto the scene with his supple, reggae-inflected guitar-driven rock. Born and raised in Accra, his music rallies for peace and rails against corruption over easy, organic percussion and gutsy guitar. His debut album, Lion On A Leash is available now and we’re loving the tracks like “Jungle Law” and “Free.” Check out the video for his single “Lion On A Leash” below. [...]
If you’re in search of the latest plethora of Nollywood movies you typically have to scour the nearest African goods store. But if you live in say, Peoria, Antarctica or the some other area starved for African culture you can just check Afrika.am for your favorite Nollywood flicks. Sort of like a YouTube for the Nollywood set, the site is an easy way to see the latest movies for free, [...]
There’s a new rookie in town and he goes by the name of Phil Ade. Raised in the DMV (DC-Maryland-Virginia) area and repping Nigeria and Grenada, this young scrapper is here to stake his claim in the rap world. Signed to soul singer Raheem Devaughn’s label 368 Music Group, Phil Ade has sparked buzz over his first mixtape Starting on JV. Now appearing on the same stage with stars like [...]
Jostling about in the back of a matatu from Nairobi’s South B suburb to the city centre a couple months ago with TKZee’s Fiasco blaring, I had to smile at the memory it evoked: Members and former school mates Tokollo “Magesh” Tshabalala, Kabelo “Bouga Luv” Mabalane, and Zwai Bala sheepishly confessing publicly they’d named their then hit in error. They’d meant “fiesta”. As in, a celebration. It was 1999 around [...]
Baaba Maal’s latest effort Television is a cross cultural, genre-bending enterprise. This version of Maal’s “International” is pretty much, straight-up Percussion 101 African rhythms. It’s fun stuff either way. Check it out below. Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io www.baabamaal.tv
I always pictured synchronized stadium dancing when I first heard this song. And apparently, so did the people at Coca-Cola apparently one of the official sponsors of the FIFA World Cup in 2010 in South Africa. An abbreviated version of Waving Flag plays over all the coke-sponsored radio and telly adverts to do with the big event. K’Naan’s Kigali rep tells me this was filmed in Mexico at the Plaza de Toros. Right [...]
The Noisettes are simply not famous enough. Going on style alone, their images should be splattered across tabloids and there should be ’round the clock coverage of their mundane goings-ons. I mean, just check their video for “Every Now and Then.” Are there people that look better than Shingai Shoniwa? Every now and then we learn a little something: brown people + autumn + vintage threads + love = amazing! We need [...]
Estelle is doing the dance thing again with this collaboration with main room DJ David Guetta. Really, it’s the same generic euro-house Guetta is famous for. Although we kinda wish we could flash a hand signal and make hobos and store clerks pop-lock in harmony. And we agree with the ladies at Parlour – Guetta looks like he wants to cut one in every scene. But, really, when it comes to hilarious [...]
