It's snowing

Snow is here. But it's snow mixed with rain so it will disappear as quick as it comes. November is the worst month in Sweden with its mixture between autumn and winter - rain and snow.

Because of work I will need to move back to my old city - Gothenburg. It's the third time I will move within a year so I'm not that happy about it but at the same time I feel good about returning to the sea port on the west coast of Sweden. I will probably move in january.

I'm also thinking about travelling somewhere in december or january. Probably within Europe. A friend of mine suggested Germany and that would be interesting. Or I might go back to Marseille in southern France - that's a city I really like.

"Politik Kills"

Nigerian-German grooves

I recently found out about an artist called Nneka. She is Nigerian-German and a great representative of the "African European"-community. She's beautiful and cool and VERY talented.

Nneka sings about God, spirituality, Nigerian (and African) politics, migration and her identity as mixed. Her music and lyrics inspires me and I look forward to hear more from this artist. Things are happening in Europe and I'm happy that artists like Nneka and Ayo (also Nigerian-German) has arrived on the scene. It's (of course) the women that shows us the way.

Shabazz

Shabazz Palaces - "Belhaven Meridian" [OFFICIAL] from Kahlil Joseph on Vimeo.

Ahh Hiplife...

Some Hiplife-beats from Ghana. "Manenko" by V.I.P.

District 9

Yesterday I saw the movie District 9. It's a science fiction movie that takes place in South Africa and is based on historical events. If you want to read more about the plot you can do that here. I would like to focus on some things that disturbed me about the movie.

First of all I have to say I don't look at movies and try to find faults. But when I saw District 9 I was very disturbed by how the Nigerian characters were potrayed - as criminals and cannibals. The movie itself was exciting, different and good but I became upset when I watched the movie and that affected my feelings toward it.

Maybe some might think I'm oversensitive but in this case I don't agree. If you haven't seen the movie you should do so and make your own observations though.

La Réalité

Two nice videos by the Malian blind couple Amadou et Mariam. Both songs are a bit different from their older and more rootsy stuff but I still love their music. I attended a concert by them a couple of years ago in Gothenburg and I think the whole audience danced that night!