Fresh Eyes: Amaal Said’s portraits of belonging
“Images”, as the Chilean visual artist Alfredo Jaar has said, “are not innocent.” From their creation,
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Weekend Music Break No.73
Here's our selection of tunes for the weekend of May 9th, 2015 It's mother's day weekend
A Metaphorical Biography
Santu Mofokeng’s photographs keep you wanting to know who are these people, what’s their sophistications, and what’s going to happen to these aspirations?
Pura Música
This is our Teca–basically introducting you to some of the coolest, hippest, most recent music from cities around Latin America.
What are ’emerging voices’ and ’emerging countries’?
Why the author asked for his work to be withdrawn from a prestigious literary competition.
Profile of South African afro-psychedelic future pop sextet Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness
Foodzone is an eatery situated in Lakeview, Soweto, right next to the Rea Vaya bus station
The Assassins of Memory
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
The Decade of People of African Descent
Ten films we can recommend at the 2015 New York African Film Festival. The theme coincides with that of the United Nations and highlights women filmmakers.
Burundi’s growing mess
How did Burundi go from being the hallmark of power-sharing success to an increasingly polarized country?
Whip it Good
The Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back.
Africa, in a state of constant self-discovery
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
The people smugglers
Smugglers are in most cases merely the “poor man’s” travel agent; a deregulated, brazen, relatively cheap and lucrative travel agency for refugees and people with no passports.
The Long History of the Garissa Attacks
April. The month of the long rains was upon us, and with its compulsive deluge flowed
Baltimore Blues
Rather than spending money to fix massive inequalities, the U.S. funds militarizing the police, incarcerating black youth, and state violence.
44 Years of Walking Past Cecil John Rhodes’ Statue
The Life and Times of Mr Peter Buckton, a worker at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Weekend Music Break No.72
Kicking things off this week, South Africa's BoysnBucks collective show off their "Umswenko" in a new
New African Disco
Here’s Hipsters Don’t Dance “Top World Carnival Tunes” for April 2015.
What’s at stake when Ethiopians vote on May 24th
The tragic but fleeting headlines about the plight of Ethiopian migrants in Libya, Yemen and South
Their parents are being told to ‘let it go’
In pictures: These are the faces of the Caravana 43 for the disappeared students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico.