Paying homage
Pitchom, Batida, Vieux Farka Toure, P-Unit, Sauti Sol and Tinariwen comprise our weekly Music Break.
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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
Egypt on Film
Aflam, a new Belgian “festival of Arab cinema,” features seven new and recent films about Egypt in Brussels.
Nas’s Angola Blues
Nas gets caught up in a musical scandal in Angola. Not how he wanted to make a connection to the continent.
Trevor Noah’s “whole African American thing”
Throwback: What happened when Trevor Noah made his debut on American network TV.
‘Fictional’ Cape Town
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
Nothing has Changed in Egypt
Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.
Sending South African miners home to die
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
The Mbalax President
The legendary Senegalese singer is running for president. Not everyone takes him seriously.
Young warriors of light
What is with the increasing use of sci-fi and horror elements in fairly recent music videos and films by African artists.
#OccupyNigeria
Most Nigerians don’t trust their government and overpaid public representatives with taxpayers’ money. So, they rose up.
An acute deficiency in generosity
Some journalism and “analysis” about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.
Pushing African music into the future
The Austria-based Ghanian singer, Anbuley, shows a willingness to jump on unconventional beats.
Africa’s oldest liberation movement is 100 years old
Does South Africa’s ruling ANC still fight for the same values it championed 100 years ago?
10 West African Club Tracks
I'm a DJ. So it's only right I give you ten songs that filled up my
The Hall of Shame
We couldn’t resist including a post with some of the lowlights of 2011.
10 African Albums of the Year, 2011
If people still bought full albums, we would suggest them buying these 10 from 2011 for their friends. Like we will.
The Year of the Woman
2011 was the year of pro-democracy movements and they were largely pushed and pulled by women.
The Year of Frantz Fanon
What gives Fanon’s thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.
The Top 10 African films of 2011
2011 was a good year for African cinema. In various cinema seats and at home, I’ve