I was actually browsing our favourite pop archive YouTube when I came across this:

["The Japanse Jacksons"]
A Japanese band from the 1970s (1967-1978) called Finger 5. Makes me think I should cover more Japanese content on this blog.
Now that’s the kind of undefinable material you come across when your plans actually included blogging some more Blaxpoitation [...]

Fellow blogger Ed Cross dropped me an e-mail, informing me about his page on contemporary African art “African Works“.
Well…saniblog.org came in between, but otherwise: I’d love to open an open, multi-authored blog dedicated to art works from East Africa. What I’ve seen online so far are just single artists being promoted by someone or themselves, [...]

What I really like about Frankfurt is that you not only come across such an awesome decoration on a wall, but also find three jamaas (from TZ?) standing on the other side of the street who are actively admiring this art. In Kiswahili.

I was pleasantly surprised today when I stumbled across Zacharia Mbutha’s paintings on the second floor of? the GTZ HQ? building in Eschborn (here’s why, in German):

Zacharia is a painter from Kenya, and while I am bit confused on the often-used definition of the term “contemporary” (where does it start, and where does it end? [...]

“The most beautiful women on earth, the beauty that no amount of money can buy, the most powerful hair in Africa, the most wanted hair styles now in Africa, our business is to make ladies look beautiful. If you want to look beautiful, come to us now. The magic in weaving styles for beautiful [...]

I came across this street art (?) in Mombasa and was wondering about it. Anyone with an explanation for these symbols?

Commuting between Embu and Nairobi during these hectic weeks at the end of the year 2006 almost made me forget about blogging one fine and important event I came across in Nairobi last weekend.
Kenyan painter Peter Elungat and designer Jutta Guglielmi rented the Exhibition Hall at Village Market – East Africa’s biggest shopping mall – [...]

The roadside is where the action is. There are some things out there you never get to see while travelling in a car. This especially applies to those Wazungu folks in their posh & red number plated 4WD cars who spend some years here and then say they’ve stayed in Aaaafrikaaaaa. Yeah, right.
Something like this [...]