Germany’s Turn
What to make of Germany’s newest arts funding program for the African continent, TURN, a 2 million Euro art and culture initiative that will last till 2015.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Our love is hot for Tiwa Savage
The music video for Tiwa Savage’s “Ife wa Gbona” is as engrossing as the song. With its blend of pop, juju and highlife It bring up warm feelings in the listener.
If dolls never die, neither does their past
The artist Gérard Quenum’s work suggest that society’s collective bad parenting and maltreatment cannot ever, completely ransack the spirit.
Legson Kayira, the first Malawian novelist, has died
Malawi had three first novelists: David Rubadiri, Aubrey Kachingwe, and Legson Kayira, who has died this
‘Syn City’ Harare
Zimbabwe is a paradox. A country riddled with contradictions. While the often unpalatable and sometimes hair-raising
Africa is a Jockey
Will the breakthrough of a Swazi jockey in British horse racing change the global stakes for Africa and its diaspora’s riders?
Tintingate
Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children’s literature.
Race, Entitlement and Gay Pride in South Africa
In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa – where political and economic power are at odds – what happens in gay spaces?
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°21
http://youtu.be/i1z5W_FZxtA Nigerian-Swedish pop star Dr Alban features in this new St. John's Dance video above. Swedish-Finnish-Gambian
Bring the Beat Home
The documentary, “Soul Power,” captures a moment in African-American music during the 1970s: testing its boundaries in Kinshasa, Zaire.
Soukous for Kabila
Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.
The indelible mark of the mbira
The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.
Are there enough African films
This new batch of films are set in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sudan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius.
When W Magazine Went to Johannesburg
They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.
Gay Shame in Johannesburg
The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.
Interrupting Paris Fashion Week
A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?
Chinua Achebe reflects on Biafra, but for whom?
Achebe’s “There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra” reopens old wounds about the civil war.
Kickstarter Must be Strong Stuff
When Deacon, a member of the band Animal Collective went to Mali to make an album and … to end slavery.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°20
This week Nigeria--yes the country whose history Rick Ross mangled in his latest music video (Ross
Township Life Has Never Looked So Glam
Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.