5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Dani Kouyaté
In 1995 filmmaker and griot Dani Kouyaté won the Golden Stallion – The award for Best
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Children’s Books African Kids Could Relate To
While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.
Resources to sustain a movement
Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?
Take your madam on a social justice tour
Social justice tours are tours which take the tourist through low income, economically depressed or working class neighborhoods.
South African Hip Hop Series: Producer Brian Soko
Brian Soko is not a happy man! Not only is he having to deal with the
The Dookoom Debate
What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?
Mali and Manhattan
Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?
Race and Elections in Brazil
Many Brazilian voters are so disillusioned with politics that in this traditionally left-leaning, post-right military dictatorship society, the right has made surprising gains in this election.
South African Hip Hop Series: Video Profile On Rapper Sam Turpin
"The thing about Joburg," observes rapper and producer Sam Turpin "it's kind of on the scale
Pan-African fashion that rejects “social entrepreneurship”
Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.
Dookoom Rises Up
A Cape Town hip hop group causes a huge stir with its music video “Larney Jou Poes” (roughly translated: Boss, your cunt.) depicting an uprising by farmworkers.
South African Hip Hop Series: Thoughts On The Late Rapper Mizchif
I was home alone one Friday night around 2001 watching, as was tradition, one of the
Dakar booms with life
The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal’s capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, “100% Dakar.”
Zambia turns 50
Zambia – the country its young people fondly call “Zed” – turns 50 in 2014. It was part of the first wave of African countries to gain independence in the 1960s.
Ali Mazrui and Me
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
South Africans lack table manners and posture.
The country’s first School of Etiquette situated in one of Johannesburg’s rich northern suburbs is more evidence of how much its public culture has slid to the right.
How to bet and win against the (international) system
Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He’s always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.
The Future of The Gettleman
After re-reading this article last night, I traveled to the end of the world and was
What Liberia Teaches About the Failures of Aid
While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.