Caster Semenya Covers You Magazine

South African track star Caster Semenya has been going through it lately. Dogged by questions of her gender, the runner recently underwent tests that to determine whether she is biologically female. The 18 year-old athlete and Pretoria University student has been racking up gold medals and records around the world. So in a timely PR move, Semenya appears on the cover of the South African magazine You. First, how do [...]

 

Afro sounds in New York Times

Last week was a big one for African music in the New York Times. Check out Piotr Orlov’s feature on Township Funk the now internationally ubiquitous hit made in 2006 by South African producer/DJ Mujava. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5-zQlgoEE] Also peep the big reveal a few days prior in the same paper by Bill Hermes: “Like their international peers African artists are using digital technology to create musical hybrids and distribute them globally,” he says [...]