Africa: Daymé Arocena At LAMC 2024
[Afropop] A showcase is, well, a showcase. It’s where record labels and companies push and highlight their talent for record producers, industry execs, and press. Perhaps they need a financial boost (as one exec told me), are up-and-coming or merely th…
Africa: Pandemic Effects Linger, and Art Invites Us to Pause and Behold Distance, Time and Trauma
[The Conversation Africa] When I finished the manuscript for my book The Pause, which looked at the COVID-19 pandemic through the idea of “pausing,” a notion frequently invoked in pandemic discussions of suspended and cancelled activities, I was happy …
Africa: The Long Shadow of German Colonialism
[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debat…
Africa: For Toumani Diabaté, Maestro of Kora Music, the Curtains Drop, By Yusuf Bangura
[Premium Times] Lovers of traditional African music, especially kora music, will sorely miss him.
Africa: World Musicians Mourn the Loss of Mali’s ‘King of Kora’ Toumani Diabate
[RFI] Malian music star Toumani Diabate passed away after a short illness, his family announced over the weekend. Music lovers across the planet paid tribute to a master instrumentalist who helped share Mali’s rich traditions with the world.
Africa: Wild Weekend in NYC – Thandiswa, Seun Kuti, Magic System and More!
[Afropop] Greetings from Night 3 of the six-night “outdoor” portion of Montreal’s Nuits D’Afrique Festival. As ever, the festival is a firehose of great music, much of it new to us, wonderful encounters with old and new friends and…well, you can imag…
Africa: The Joy Lapps Project – On a Mission to Keep Afro-Caribbean Culture Alive
[Afropop] We first fell in love with Grammy-nominated steel pan artist Joy Lapps, when she walked – or rather, waddled – on stage, eight months pregnant at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal last week. She began by letting the audience know…
Africa: Africa’s Best Selling Books of All Time
[Independent (Kampala)] Over the past century, African writers have written about their lives, experiences, culture, history, and myths in a variety of forms, styles, and languages. They have been widely published across Africa, Europe, the Americas, a…
Africa: Festival International De Jazz De Montreal 2024 – an Overwhelming Musical Feast
[Afropop] Choices. There are easy ones and difficult ones in life. And when it comes to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, the choices always lean towards the difficult. There is just so much good music going on from mid-afternoon until af…
Africa: Afropop Top Videos – Yg Marley, Yemi Alade, Tinariwen, Qoha and More!
[Afropop] Summer is upon us full force, and nothing sounds better in summer than music from the continent and its global diaspora. Here are seven new video offerings for you to keep the summer vibe going.