Monthly Archives: October 2009

Because there is no better way to spend a Friday Afternoon than watching Nigerians try to convince Beyonce to marry them in an amazing dance off: Huge Hattip to Shelby Grossman.

It’s election season in the Great Lakes and Jay-Z is marauding around Rwanda calling for everybody to rock the vote.  Burundi is going to the polls in November 2010,  Rwanda  in August 2010, and the DRC will go to the … Continue reading →

Because the Kasai Allstars have mastered the orchestral Congolese rhumba sound and produce awesome music videos where they dress in traditional garb and jam in parking lots filled with hondas:

1. Emma Thompson accuses adopted Rwandan child’s elite American high school of being too elite; awesome. 2. Burundi agrees to stop forcefully deporting refugees, instead ensures sub-part living standards and meager food. 3. Political manifesto written by ex-rebel leader Laurent … Continue reading →

Over at Microcon, Kathleen Jennings and Vesna Niklic-Ristanovic analyze the sexual dimensions of peacekeeping economies. Word on the street is that peacekeeping kind of bloats the sex-trade industry, in, you know, maybe not the best of ways: Peacekeeping economies [do … Continue reading →

The guardian recently crunched the numbers to calculate the impact of MONUC’s military operations intended to disarm those pesky FDLR. Word on the street, 1 FDLR rebel costs a lot. Texas in Africa does some more math and figures that … Continue reading →

Because this last week was the 20th anniversary of Franco’s death and because Franco not only irrefutably changed the landscape of African music, but also produce some awesome music. Check out this excellent retrospective on Franco and his TPOK Jazz … Continue reading →

Playing hot potato politics last week, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Chief Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow tried to pass off all those irritating genocide cases he must deal with to the East African Court for Justice.  The East African Court … Continue reading →

Because  Lopango Yaba Nka speaks truth to power with awesome Congolese hip hop:

UNICEF launched a new campaign in which they place cut-outs of begging Rwandan children in front of expensive clothing stores throughout the world. This begs two questions: are stores going to bring in sexier manikins to compete with the cute … Continue reading →