Africa Is a Country

Maïmouna and African Urban France

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Maïmouna and African Urban France

By
Boima Tucker

Friday night at Sutra Lounge in New York, Maimouna Coulibaly will be performing alongside myself and DJ King Solo for Africology’s Afrique Sessions.

Maïmouna Coulibaly is one of Paris’s premier “African Urban Dance” boosters, choreographing some of the biggest artists music videos, teaching dance workshops, releasing DVDs, running her own dance company, and writing, directing, and starring in her own plays about Sub-Urban Paris, and African immigrant youth identity. This is her first and only public performance in New York, so come get a taste of Paris on Friday!

Further Reading

Leapfrogging literacy?

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.

Repoliticizing a generation

Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.

Drip is temporary

The apparel brand Drip was meant to prove that South Africa’s townships could inspire global style. Instead, it revealed how easily black success stories are consumed and undone by the contradictions of neoliberal aspiration.

Energy for whom?

Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future.