Gaddafi Archives at the London Photography Festival

• Orlando Reade

Friday Bonus Music Break, N°14

• Tom Devriendt

A Room Adrift in London

• Orlando Reade

This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.

The Very Best Politics

• Emily Wood

What’s the story with The Very Best’s video for the single “Kondaine,” where they teamed up with an American NGO and shot it in very rural Kenya.

Africa is a Science Fiction Superpower

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

Spring revolution or a summer of discontent

• Brett Davidson

Can North Africans define their own futures, away from the inventions of old white men in think tanks in Washington DC?

The rising bitterness of South Africa’s black majority

• Basia Cummings

‘Dear Mandela’ questions whether the history of South Africa’s ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC’s power head on.

The United States of Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.

Binyavanga’s writing out of depression

• Jonathan Duncan

Writing on depression in Africa is a rarity, so Binyavanga Wainaina’s book, “One Day I Will Write About This Place,” seems singular.

The New York Times goes to Zimbabwe

• Africa Is a Country

American media should focus on the real political struggles in Zimbabwe and not think that the government of national unity has brought Zimbabwe out of a period of violent political conflict.

Steve Bloom photographs 1970s Cape Town

• Orlando Reade

Struggles over memory in South Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.

Friday Bonus Music Break, N°13

• Tom Devriendt

Nando’s Grilled Chicken Politics

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We asked the Africa Is a Country “office” to comment on Nando’s new ad that is supposedly a comment on the widespread antiblack xenophobia in South Africa.

New Media and Activism in Africa

• Brett Davidson

The limitations of working in the online space, given the small percentages of people with online access (despite the expansion of mobile technology).

Mutua Matheka and the Cityscapes of Nairobi

• Emily Wood

Matheka, through his photographs, aims to instil in Kenyans, and eventually all Africans, pride in their cities and pride in their place within them.

Sodade

• Olufemi Terry

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

The Safe Location

• Loren A Lynch

Denzel Washington’s new thriller, “Safe House,” plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can’t tell. That’s deliberate.

Friday Music Break, N°12

• Boima Tucker

The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

• Emily Wood

This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.