An African Face in NY

If it isn’t the week of features uh, here’s yet another rubric that I’m adding to “I’m An African in NY” because I thought it’d be fun. So the rubric is called An African Face in NY. I will be posting a pic and a short bio (an interview of sort) of Africans from all walks of life. This way you get to see that not all of us in NY are bootleggers, braid hair for instance. But yea I might have a bootleg dude once in a while (I said from all walks of life right?). So I’m planning on walking up to random people who look African (wtf does an African look like anyway) and ask them to feature. If they refuse I’ll take a photo of them anyway and run. Or I just might ask some of my friends to feature. In any case check out the first African face next week. In the meantime here’s an African face for you…yes that’s me, what’s your point you little bugger…

Video of the Week: Bisso Na Bisso

I’m starting this week a new rubric called Video of the Week where I’ll share with you my musical “coup de coeurs”, past as well as present. Today’s feature will be a video of the France based Congolese (Brazzaville) rap collective known as Bisso Na Bisso (meaning ‘between us’ in Lingala). The video is a parody of African government leaders concern with stuffing their pockets during their tenure rather the welfare of the people who put them in office. Bisso Na Bisso was banned from performing in their native country of Congo upon release of “Racines” (roots) their debut album in 1999. The title of the song (dans la peau d’un chef) can be translated as ‘in the shoes of an elected or appointed official’. And oh the song is in French