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Theophilus, Menahan Street Band, Oroma & Maki Oh
Summer Night’s Groove I’m really digging Theophilus London‘s song Rio. The Menahan Street Band are working a seriously serious groove: the type of groove that seems to provide the perfect soundtrack to a humid, breezy cool summer night; that perfect groove that draws you into its layered syncopation, but is self-assured enough not to require […]
Five (African) Things: Bobby Womack, Nigerian Statistics, King Sunny Ade, Oroma Elewa and Les Afropéennes
December 18, 2012
1. Bobby Womack Covers Clash Magazine in Cyrus Kabiru Shades 2. Nigerian Statistics I was looking for a map showing income distribution across Nigeria, something similar to this map of New York (assembled and updated by the good folks at WNYC), when I discovered that (1) the Nigerian government did not have a functioning website […]
Maki Oh + Garance Dore
April 7, 2012
Ok, so I was je je’lly minding my business, taking a break from “learning how to be British” (a story for another day) when I decided to pop over to the website of my favourite French blogger, Garance Doré (who is part Moroccan, and thus I confer honorary Curly Africana status) and what is the […]
American Vogue + Africa’s Best Dressed
November 10, 2011
I am home at a decent hour this evening, and for that I thank God. After a long week at work, I’m looking forward (as I always do) to the weekend. I’m taking a train to somewhere nice and tucking into Teju Cole’s Open City (from the snatches I’ve read on my early morning tube […]
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