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Boogie Down Nima in the Bronx
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
Three Signs of Ghana’s Art Times
Ghana is currently experiencing a surge of contemporary performing and visual arts. Here are some notes on goings on about Accra-town.
Who will make the great Sankara biopic?
We don't want to see a film about what might have been, however seductive that aspect of Burkina Faso's history is. But what was achieved.
The Story of Cameroon’s First Metal Band
The mistake of directing the hardline scorn we reserve for say Madonna and Fox News at small independent filmmakers or young volunteers at NGO's in Africa.
What is wrong with this headline?
Europe's new provincialism exacts a human toll that can only be accepted with a mind-set that subscribes to nothing more than a new barbarism.
Capitalizing on a mess
Johannesburg: the city where criminals don’t discriminate, but property developers do.
Not Nollywood
An Interview with Nigerian Filmmaker Tunde Kelani.
Black Violin
Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste are the classically trained violin and viola playing duo that anchor Black Violin.
The first rules of Halloween
As a public service, we will, every year around Halloween, share this guide on how not to embarrass yourself or offend anyone.
The new South African family film
The idea that a post-racial South Africa can only be achieved through the adoption of white ideals, culture, and norms by black South Africans.