Latin America is a country
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted to counter the notion that everything in Latin America can be understood only through Euro-American lenses.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Nene Leakes’ ‘African tribal dance’
"He said, 'Hunni nobody can do this, you're the only person here who can do this. You're always the queen bee, and fabulous, and over the top, so there's nobody else here who can do an African tribal dance. You're the only black girl here.' I thought that was creative and awesome and I was like whaaaat?! I've only been to Africa one time I don't know what they do over there, but let's try it!"
A History of Nigeria’s Police Service
Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria’s police force was never really an investigating force.
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #1
Listen to Africa is a Country Radio every month on Groovalizacion. March's episode was the first
Race Science Files: New York Times edition
Just what level of racist insanity does an “expert” have to exhibit before the New York Times starts to think they’re not an expert?
Intimacy in Africa, on film
Bringing attention to African filmmakers who challenge prevalent cinematic depictions of the continent.
Who are Boko Haram, and how did they come to be?
This is currently Boko Haram’s structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.
The hands played by themselves
Basil Breakey’s photographs serves as an important recording of South Africa jazz music in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Sonic Geography of Cartagena
The strong local identity of Colombia’s most African big city is slowly being erased. But not all its artists, especially musicians, are giving up without a fight.
A Short History of the Slave Trade in Nigeria
A public service as a response to Nigeria’s removal of history from its school curriculum
More than blankets, mountains and horse rides
The film “Forgotten Kingdom” has become one of the most powerful representations of Lesotho. Does it get it right?
Belonging—Why South Africans Refuse to let Africa in
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
The Slave Ship Theme
The Cape Town company that designs and markets “slave ship” ironing boards and aprons.
The last space of cultural dynamism in Luanda’s baixa is no more
Angolans protest as the state threatens to tear down an historic building.
Films to fall asleep to
Are development agencies derailing the film industry in Tanzania?
The African Cake
Last week a bunch of smartly dressed activists, myself included, made a visit to the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) offices in London pretending to be representatives of large food corporations and offering them a cake in the shape of Africa. This, we said, was to celebrate the help that the UK government is giving to big business’s efforts to mount a new scramble for Africa. Watch what happened:
Chris Hani’s political legacy
Chris Hani should not be made into an ideal type or used to settle political scores in the present.
Where were you when Chris Hani was killed?
Chris Hani, a prominent ANC and Communist Party leader, was murdered on April 10, 1993, by white racists. The writer remembers hearing the news.
The Edutainment Industrial-Complex
The ONE organization (it counts one of Warren Buffett's sons as well as Bono, Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleezza
Europeans ‘rescuing’ African art from obscurity again
For years Bisi Silva, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim and others have been active players in the art world. Why are they being written out of the story?