South Africa: Miriam Makeba Sang the Music of Her Roots

Singer, song writer, political activist and actress Miriam Zenzi Makeba,  or "Mama Africa" as she was popularly known, was born in Johannesburg on March 4 1932. Read more »

South Africa: Miriam Makeba Sings to the Last

Miriam Makeba, the South African singing star whose career took off in the 1950s and who famously appeared at the United Nations to condemn apartheid, has died suddenly after a… Read more »

Africa: Youssou N'Dour, Other Top Talent Appear in U.S. Capital

African superstar Youssou N'Dour joined some of Africa's finest musical and fashion talent and African-American stars for a celebration of the continent's achievements at the… Read more »

South Africa: 'Freedom Church' Brings Alive Apartheid Struggle

South Africa's "mother city" of Cape Town is renowned as the country's most beautiful for tourists, but there's no escaping the destruction of apartheid when you visit. Read more »

Tanzania: Nakaaya Makes a Splash

Tanzanian songstress Nakaaya has been making a splash on the East African music scene of late. Her remake of the classic “Malaika” and her controversial yet honest… Read more »

Senegal: Festival Celebrates Global Hip Hop

The organizers of Festa 2H, a Senegalese hip hop festival running in Dakar this week, want to make the West African capital city the capital of the hip hop empire. Read more »

Africa: Putting Human Faces on HIV/Aids

The widely acclaimed book, 28: Stories of Aids in Africa, has been highly praised for humanizing the story of HIV and Aids in Africa for readers around the world. The book tells… Read more »

Liberia: Music Lovers Ready For 'Akon' Visit

The songs of the American superstar, "Akon" have been playing on virtually all Monrovia's radio stations in readiness for his big performance in the city today. Read more »

Uganda: African Rap Artist Creating a Major Buzz in the U.S.

Among the emerging African hip hop artists making a splash in the United States and globally is Edwin Ruyonga, a.k.a. Krukid. Read more »

Nigeria: A New Publisher, Creating a New Industry

When Bibi Bakare-Yusuf holds her two reviewers' copies of Kemi's Journal—one printed in India and one in Nigeria—side by side, the difference is night and day. Read more »

Algeria: Romantic Drama is a Tale of Suspense and Intrigue

'The Other World'' directed by Merzak Allouache, is dramatic adaptation of a tale about a young French-Algerian woman searching for her missing fiancé. The movie… Read more »

Mali: Filmmaker Abbdoulaye Ascofaré's Tale of an African Mother's Struggle

FARAW! Mother of the Dunes, is a sentimental film about the many challenges and roles a woman has as a mother and wife. The main character Zamiatou (Aminta Ousmane) is a fictional… Read more »

Chad: Film Tells of One Boy's Struggle for Revenge and Honor

A movie full of action and suspense.   A movie full of violence and entertainment.   A very well put together sequence of action and emotion.   This is what comes to… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Burkinabe Film Re-Tells Classic Folk Story

Sia, The Dream of the Python is a movie, portraying the classic folk story about sacrifice for the greater good. Burkina Faso filmmaker Dani Kouyate puts a unique twist on the play… Read more »

West Africa: New Film Looks at West Africans in America

Informative, interesting, and humorous are three adjectives that can be used to describe this documentary. Taking place in the concrete jungle of New York, this documentary… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Hip Hop Artist Boobah Siddik Mixes Politics and Rhythm

Ivorian hip hop artist Boobah Siddik has been active in the hip hop community since he left West Africa in 1997 and headed for the U.S. For the past five years he has been… Read more »

Nigeria: Sharia Court Bans Satirical Play

Early in October, Shehu Sani started preparations for the opening of his third play, The Phantom Crescent. He wanted to perform it outside, in a park in Kaduna, where people could… Read more »

South Africa: Lucky Dube - Beloved Brother and Artist

South Africa is today mourning the loss of our "Reggae Son," Lucky Dube. With his family, we grieve over the killing of a beloved brother and artist, who has been a prolific force… Read more »

South Africa: Music Legend Murdered in Jo'burg Hijacking

South African reggae superstar, Lucky Dube, was shot dead in an attempted hijacking in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg on Thursday night. Read more »

Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation

"This book is about my own journey along the fault lines of African/African American relations and the wider historical relationship between black Americans and their… Read more »

Africa: "Faces Filled with Joy" - The 1994 South African Election

Gail Hovey first went to South Africa in 1966 on the Frontier Internship Program of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. While there, she continued her relationship with the… Read more »

Africa: "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection

Dubuque, Iowa, might seem an unlikely hotbed of Southern African organizing, but National Namibia Concerns based at Wartburg Theological Seminary mobilized more than 10,000… Read more »

Africa: Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building

Jennifer Davis and George Houser had been colleagues for more than a decade when he retired from the American Committee on Africa in 1981 and she became the organization's… Read more »

Africa: Sylvia Hill - From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement

Sylvia Hill and her fellow local activists in the Southern Africa Support Project were at the heart of the Free South Africa Movement that brought demonstrators to be arrested at… Read more »

Africa: The Rise of African Hip Hop

Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s, was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it… Read more »