African Lookbook
This website thinks it can combine ideas about Africa with shopping. Sean Jacobs interviewed one of the founders of African Lookbook, Aaron Kohn.
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Nigeria’s Super Eagles are back
The writer is cautiously optimistic (for once) that Nigeria will win its third Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.
Yoruba Cool
Africa is everywhere on "Landing on a Hundred," the new album by American guitarist and singer, Cody ChesnuTT. It's in the instrumentation, the arrangements and in his voice.
Futbol Is a Country
We want to present a more global, postcolonial (for want for a better word) take on world football.
The ‘Promised Land’ in Mozambique
Gregor Zielke’s photos capture a coal mining company’s broken promises to a Mozambican community, but also the communities’ resilience.
To hear musicians breathe
An ode to The Mahogany Room, the pre-eminent live jazz venue in Cape Town, South Africa.
God is a profitable and deadly business in Angola
In post-socialist, growth-oriented Angola, the rich are getting richer and the poor have only their faith.
Eggs and omelettes
The existence of African billionaires are not positive evidence of “Africa rising,” but testament to the extreme inequality characterizing economic growth on the continent.