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Golda Gatsey
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5 New Films to Watch, N°26

Mining the Body
What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?

People in glass houses
South Africa’s news media’s much vaunted editorial independence.

Grime’s Deepest Darkest Africa
Not sure what is empowering about a UK grime artist explicitly glorifying African conflict and capitalizing on the fear and violence that it entails.

An African inspired fantasy world
Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.
The case of Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu

Is Italy Ready for an African-born Government Minister?
A large part of the challenge for Italians to get used to a black Cabinet Minister is the role Italian media plays. They’re particularly bad when it comes to race.
Weekend Music Break, N°41

A Day in Ouagadougou
Watching the film “Tamani,” there’s no need to understand the local languages to get a taste of what Ouaga sounds like.

Africa is a Country’s New Logo

Afropolitan Dreams in Brooklyn
Blitz the Ambassador’s last major project was ‘Native Sun.’ Now he is taking the party on the road.

In Search of the “African Middle Class”
Who would guess that a little over a decade ago Africa was mostly described as “the hopeless continent”?
Why France doesn’t want to let Aminata Traoré in and Germany allowed her only inside Berlin’s city limits

Beignets and Nigerian meat pies
Nollywood, the world’s second largest film industry, produces over 2000 films annually, and now, seven of its best will be screened at France’s first ever NollywoodWeek Paris.

Freedom Day
The ways in which Nelson Mandela’s image as a referent of South Africa’s recent past has been appropriated, signified and transformed into material form as commemoration.
Weekend Music Break, N°40

5 New Films to Watch, N°25

Joyce Banda has bigger problems than Madonna
After years of being frozen out by Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration, President Joyce Banda has restored the IMF to the top table of Malawian policy-making and pushed through a sweeping reforms at their behest.

The new journalism model
VICE partners with old media, makes sponsored content, owns an ad agency, and cozies up to Murdoch—despite its edgy style and fresh take on news.