Last month, Mali’s trio SMOD (consisting of DJ Sam, Ousco and Donski) released a second single, Les Dirigeants Africains, taken from their new self-titled album. Sure, producer Manu Chao’s stamp is all over it, but SMOD’s lyrics and director Chris Macari* make up for that. And if you think DJ Sam looks a bit like Amadou or Mariam, you might very well be onto something…
* If you’ve never heard of Chris Macari, then his 2003 short movie The Letter is a good place to start.
In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.
The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification.
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
In Sudan, the focus must remain on supporting the Sudanese people’s aspirations for peace, stability, and democratic governance.
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.
The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.
The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.
Da Namíbia até a Armênia, e de Ruanda à Bósnia, os perpetradores de assassinato em massa afirmam estar agindo em legítima defesa.
From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense.
In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.
Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.
South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.
New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.