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Minnesota Public Radio show ‘The Current’ streams live performances recorded at its Fritzgerald Theater on its website. The latest: three songs performed by Toumani Diabate, the Malian kora player (I saw him perform live last summer in downtown Brooklyn with his Symmetric Orchestra. He got the crowd going). You can listen here.

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‘… In one sense, … Arendt was of course correct [that the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe.] But as so often, it took other people longer to grasp her point. It is true that in the aftermath of Hitler’s defeat and the Nuremberg trials lawyers and [...]

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‘Black people in Lima [Ohio], from the poorest citizens to religious and business leaders, complain that rogue police officers regularly stop them without cause, point guns in their faces, curse them and physically abuse them. They say the shooting of Ms. [Tamika] Wilson is only the latest example of a long-running pattern of a few [...]

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‘In my experience, there are two kinds of coloured folk: Black Rockers and Blackies Who Rock. The distinction is between those who’d gladly join the Black Rock Coalition or openly claim Afro-Punk affiliation, and malcontents who’re such badass renegade punk-rock futhermuckers that they’d never join the only club that would have them, and would rather [...]

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‘The Kurosawan story of the origins of the state is still played out in our times in Africa, where gangs of armed men grab power — do away with their rivals, and proclaim Year One. Though these African military gangs are often no larger or more powerful than the organized criminal gangs of Asia or [...]

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This blog will go OFFLINE in ONE WEEK. Ever the traveler, I moved over to WordPress. The many technical glitches of Blogger became too much. – Leo

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Profiled by Belgian TV channel, EEN. In Flemish (close to Afrikaans) and English. He equalized for Bafana against Angola earlier this week in Ghana.

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That’s if you believe journalist Tim Butcher. Tim Butcher’s Top Ten Books About Congo, a regular ‘Top Ten’ list was just published in the Guardian and surprise: it does not include a single African, or even Congolese writer. Granted it is a subjective list, but I am not surprised and it makes perfect sense. Tim [...]

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Zimbabwe, originally uploaded by Leo Africanus. Graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies (‘the guerrilla of design’) lectures in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (To see the whole image, click on the photograph.)

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The photographs of Sidibe and Mthethwa are on view at Washington DC’s G Fine Art Gallery as part of an exhibition on “Portraits.’ See also here.

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