Posted with vodpod I’ve now watched “Brother with Perfect Timing“–the 1987 documentary on Abdullah Ibrahim, directed by Chris Austin–several times. (Ibrahim, if you haven’t figured it out by now is one of the most influential jazz musicians of our time.). Everything I see the film, I see something new. Like in this clip which is [...]
Archive for January, 2009
‘The beginning of Afrikaans’
Posted in Music, tagged Abdullah Ibrahim, Ekaya, Islam, Islam in South Africa, jazz, language, Music, South Africa, Sweet Basil, The origins of Afrikaans, video on January 30, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Afro Samurai Soundtrack
Posted in Music, tagged DJ/Beats, electronic music, games, hip hop, manga, RZA, Wu Tang Clan on January 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The RZA is all over it. And that must be a good thing. Link
In search of Kenyan food in New Jersey
Posted in Not just about Africa, tagged Africa in New Jersey, food, Fork in the Road, Kenya, Robert Sietsema, Village Voice on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Sietsema on the Village Voice food blog, Fork in the Road (one of the only decent writers in the fast-aging free weekly) took one of the tunnels to New Jersey to find Kenyan food. Talk of ugali, managu and mandazi abounds. The food reads good.
King Britt At Work
Posted in Music, tagged afro-tech., broken beat, Deejays, deep house, documentary shorts, funk, hip hop, King Britt, nu jazz, Philadelphia, videos on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted with vodpod Documentary about one of my favorite DJ’s at work. My favorite King Britt track is his remix of Quincy Jones’s “They Call Me Mr Tibbs.” Via MiND TV.
Nina Simone, ‘Ain’t Got No… I’ve Got Life’
Posted in Music, tagged Music, Nina Simone, video on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
more about "Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No…I’ve Got…", posted with vodpod
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency on HBO
Posted in film, tagged Anthony Minghella, HBO, Jill Scott, Lucian Msamati, Precious Ramotswe, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HBO has announced it will broadcast the film about a “the fat lady detective,” Precious Ramotswe, set in rural Botswana in March this year. The film is based on the Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith‘s popular novels and was originally made for the BBC. The cast includes American actors Jill Scott (the R&B singer) and [...]
“The African mind at work”
Posted in blogs, tagged Charles Mudede, gays, Gays and Lesbians, gays and lesbians in Africa, Mfonobong Nsehe on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In light of my earlier celebratory mood on the appointment of the openly gay Judge Edwin Cameron to South Africa’s Constitutional Court, see this defense of gay rights by one Mfonobong Nsehe (posted by Charles Mudede on Seattle newspaper, The Stranger’s arts blog, The Slog): “Don´t get too excited. Let me start by stating categorically [...]
New Books: The Death of Hintsa
Posted in Books, tagged Books, Nicholas Gcaleka, postcolonial history, Premesh Lalu, South African History, The Death of Hintsa, Xhosa on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cape Town historian Premesh Lalu‘s fascinating study The Death of Hintsa has just been published by HSRC Press in South Africa. Here’s the PR blurb: “In 1996, as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, set off on [...]
Imagine an HIV+, openly gay judge on the Supreme Court
Posted in South Africa, tagged AIDS, Constitutiona Court Judges, courts, Edwin Cameron, Gays and Lesbians, gays and lesbians in Africa, HIV, Judicial Commission, New York Times, South Africa on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I can imagine the blood pressure of Republicans and conservatives here in the US at such news. Yet that’s just what South Africa did–without any fanfare–when its Judicial Service Commission recommended (it holds public hearings on court appointments) and then the country’s President, Kgalema Motlanthe, appointed the judge, Edwin Cameron, to its highest court, the [...]
The erosion of the ANC’s moral authority
Posted in politics, South Africa, tagged African National Congress, ANC, Doug Henwood, Jacob Zuma, radio, Sean Jacobs interviews, South African politics, The Left Business Observer, WBAI 99.5 FM on January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week I gave a live interview to Doug Henwood’s radio program (he runs the Left Business Observer and his program is broadcast every Thursday on New York City’s WBAI 99.5 FM and is rebroadcast on Saturdays on KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley) on my political impressions from a recent trip to South Africa, especially [...]
-
Archives
- August 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
