AFRICA.VISUAL_MEDIA

screenshot of website image, “Blue Print, Rio” © The Sartorialist
Herewith, a randomly ordered year end list of stuff of note from 2008 here at casa forota.
1. MUSIC: Post everything music: BLK JKS, Esau Mwamwaya, Santogold, Vampire Weekend, Radioclit, Diplo, et al found new ways to mash up musical, cultural, epochal influences to create music influenced […]

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A pan African vision of remembering your origins and imagining a future that honors those but moves forward.
Tricia Rose on the definition of Afrofuturism.
Tricia Rose is a professor of Africana (???) Studies at Brown University. In the audio clip above from the NPR show “Studio 360” she weaves a thread of futurism through black american […]

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Township Funk: DJ Mujava
Kwaito: (noun): “A music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive African samples which are looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male, shouted or chanted rather than sung or […]

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So where were we? Oh, yeah, looking for and sharing afromedia goodness around the Internets. Now that I am only checking out the Daily Kos, Politico, Fivethirtyeight.com and Huffington Post twice a day instead of twice an hour, I can get parts of my life back.
South African popular music that has long been influenced […]

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So … it is early 1970’s Nairobi. Petrol is still cheap. The city is clean, safe and orderly; the City Council picks up garbage regularly. The Kenya Bus Service is still the way to get around town. Matatus are not yet ubiquitous (who wants to ride in the back of a pickup outfitted with benches, […]

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