Racism and a legacy of colonialism are preventing the West from recognizing the potential of African innovation. Affordable technology is helping people all over Africa propel an economic revolution. Investment is pouring in from India, China, and other emerging markets. But the West, in my eyes, is ignoring one of the 21st century’s most important stories. There are reasons the West has historically overlooked African innovation....

The Magazine Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world. Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years. Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the...

Taken from the Mixtape ‘Wake Up’. Track produced by @ApolloBrown. for downloads and to purchase t-shirts check out www.natemusic.co.uk Follow on Twitter – @NateMusic13 @MrKamara YouTube: NateMusicTV Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NateMusic   Nate will is also featured on  Stolen From Africa Vol2  “Lest We Forget” set to be released as a free download next...

  FREE/PWYC Concert With Performances By KINNIE STARR A TRIBE CALLED RED TANIKA CHARLES & THE WONDERFULS FREEDOM WRITERS CHERYL BEAR SKRATCH BASTID IAN KAMAU PLEX YINKA DENE DRUMMERS DJ ARIEL This Tuesday, May 8th, please stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters on the West Coast against the Enbridge Northern Gateway project! This struggle is about the very survival the Yinka Dene and the many other Indigenous...

New Visuals from SFA fam “Almighty Shing Shing Regime’s” (@shingshing7) latest single entitled “Allthentic”. This banger was produced by Double Profit (@x2profit) with cuts by the “Regime’s” own DJ AKiiN. This video was filmed by “Stealth Movementz” and edited by Skip James. Copyright 2012. For more information visit thewayofshing.com also FB search: “SHING SHING...

Montreal International Reggae Festival (MIRF) team is particularly proud to celebrateJamaica’s 50 years of independence with some of the leading and most prolific ambassadors in the history of Reggae. Continually embracing the motto “United Against Violence” and with an unrelenting determination to unite nations through music, MIRF has designed three days of stellar programming this summer. Included in the roster of confirmed artists,...