
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
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Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.

The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.


Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?




It is still okay to create the most objectionable stereotypes about certain Africans and for it to be considered fine. This time: India.



Bok van Blerk’s new music video mines familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country saved by a blonde heroine and her white male companion.

The one about the black model we all love to hate and the white activist we all just love.

When Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper thought it was OK to get two white, Irish men to edit a special issue of the paper on Africa.


A brand of football trickery and showmanship have only reaped bad results on the field for South African teams, but is also a great dance.

Researchers find Europeans and Asians share 1% to 4% of their nuclear DNA with Neandertals. But Africans do not. What to do with this information?