Monday, July 11, 2011BET Awards Merges African and American Talentby Sandra Appiah, Face2FaceAfricaBET Awards has launched a new category for Best International Act: Africa to meet the growing interest in covering hot African talent. Face2FaceAfrica covers the event.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010Salif Keita—A Year in Beninby Katie Fackler, Princeton in Africa FellowKatie Fackler, a member of the Princeton in Africa program, is working and living for a year in Cotonou, Benin. In this post, she writes about seeing a Malian music artist, Salif Keita, in concert.
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Friday, December 03, 2010Get Up and Go: Toni Blackman in Botswanaby Jayanthi Daniel, Africa.com EditorToni Blackman, a hip-hop ambassador for the U.S. Department of State, recently traveled to Botswana on the Get Up and Go tour, and shares some of her experiences.
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Friday, October 01, 2010Planting Seedsby All For Africa John Legend and the Roots are everywhere. You can see and hear them on The View, a free show in Brooklyn, a Spike Lee-directed online event, Billboard Magazine and, yes, The International POP Festival - to benefit All For Africa’s Palm Out Poverty initiative.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010Flames on both sides of the Atlantic by Mkhululi Z MabijaSathima Bea Benjamin is a jazz vocalist from Cape Town, South Africa who has made the shores of America her home and she pours the spirit of South Africa in every note she sings. With the help of Duke Ellington, Benjamin arrived in New York City with her pianist husband, Abdullah Ibrahim, in the 1960s and never looked back. Escaping the brutality of apartheid, Ibrahim and Benjamin hoped that through music, they could survive being in exile through four-part harmony. And they did.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010Hearing Africa by OKAYAFRICA Africa is everywhere. This summer the entire world focused on South Africa for the World Cup while Fela Kuti’s life is memorialized night after night on Broadway. K’Naan is playing to sold out stadiums and Bono is proclaiming our times the “African Decade." Every day more people are taking genealogical DNA tests and discovering where they’re really from, even down to what tribe they may belong to. It’s simply impossible to overlook how Africa today (and its cultural legacy of centuries past) is now newly permeating our culture.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010You don't want to miss this! Jazz and More!by Africa.com Editorial Staff
16 days and counting ...
The Cape Town Jazz Festival is called "Africa's Grandest Gathering." No wonder! For two days - April 3rd and 4th - on five stages, thousands of jazz enthusiasts will meet under the magic of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa to hear more than 40 international and local artists -- from 29 yr-old rising sensation Lira....to legend Vusi Mahlasela -- from George Benson with a 28 piece orchestra....to pianist/composer Jason Moran and The Bandwagon.
You can't join the 32,000+ visitors in person? No problem! Check out Africa.com's Radio page during the week of March 29th to hear the artists booked for the Festival. Don't forget to vote for your favorite!
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16 days and counting ...
The Cape Town Jazz Festival is called "Africa's Grandest Gathering." No wonder! For two days - April 3rd and 4th - on five stages, thousands of jazz enthusiasts will meet under the magic of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa to hear more than 40 international and local artists -- from 29 yr-old rising sensation Lira....to legend Vusi Mahlasela -- from George Benson with a 28 piece orchestra....to pianist/composer Jason Moran and The Bandwagon.
You can't join the 32,000+ visitors in person? No problem! Check out Africa.com's Radio page during the week of March 29th to hear the artists booked for the Festival. Don't forget to vote for your favorite!
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Monday, March 15, 2010Africa.com Launches Weekly Music Contest – Bringing African Music to Global On-line Audienceby Teresa Clarke, CEO and Founder of Africa.comAfrica is the birthplace of civilization. Anthropologists and geneticists, pouring over fossil evidence, are telling us that modern humans evolved in southern Africa some 200,000 to 100,000 years ago.
Today, musicians too are pointing to Africa as a wellspring of civilization, whether the form is hip hop, dancehall, traditional or R&B. Even outside Africa, creativity is being inspired by artists who have experienced the jangle of influences pulsing through the continent.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010This Week on Africa.com TOP 20by Thabisile Prudence ChaukeThe artist at the top of this week's TOP 20 count-down is Thandiswa Mazwai with "Nizalwa Ngobani (Do You Know Where You Come From?)".
After shooting to fame as part of one of Southern Africa's most legendary groups, Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa Mazwai has proven to be an important and enduring performer in the South African music scene. In the Number One spot this week, "Nizalwa Ngobana (Do You Know Where You Come From?)", from Thandiswa's 2005 debut album "ZABALAZA", is a song that layers a string of questions in an attempt to remind the people of Africa where they come from. Composed by Thandiswa herself, "Nizalwa Ngobani" is a traditional mid-tempo piece layered with the Maskandi guitar style and infused with Thandiswa's soulful Xhosa trademark - a.k.a. the click language - singing, occasionally accompanied by a hint of the English language.
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After shooting to fame as part of one of Southern Africa's most legendary groups, Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa Mazwai has proven to be an important and enduring performer in the South African music scene. In the Number One spot this week, "Nizalwa Ngobana (Do You Know Where You Come From?)", from Thandiswa's 2005 debut album "ZABALAZA", is a song that layers a string of questions in an attempt to remind the people of Africa where they come from. Composed by Thandiswa herself, "Nizalwa Ngobani" is a traditional mid-tempo piece layered with the Maskandi guitar style and infused with Thandiswa's soulful Xhosa trademark - a.k.a. the click language - singing, occasionally accompanied by a hint of the English language.
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Friday, March 12, 2010Meet Simon Kashama, where music meets making a differenceby Marisa TramontanoThere has been a lot of talk lately about turning pain into power and oppression into opportunity. Simon Kashama is turning devastation into music, inspired by the strength and resilience of his sisters in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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