Walking on water
From the Otelo Burning soundtrack (we still owe the soundtrack a review), here’s ‘Walk on Water’
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The World of Congolese artist Pume Bylex
In the introduction to The World According to Bylex, Filip De Boeck and Koen Van Synghel
The Racial Politics of Tuareg Nationalism
Historian Greg Mann is not a big fan of Tuareg group, Tinariwen. The music is alright, he agrees, but the politics is rancid.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°6
Mali’s on our mind. Mostly because of the confusion. Reports from Bamako abound, while there’s still
The shareholders of Jesus Inc.
God is the fastest-growing business in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. It may be time we agitate for our governments to raise taxes on these corporations.
Cape Town: Beautiful Ugly
The city's past and its predilections render neat formulations like Creole city and European city equally hollow.
We are the remains
This is Number 11 in my occasional series of posts highlighting the music of my hometown, Paris, also a center of Europe's African diaspora.
The Jacob Zuma Era
Coming on June 1 is Northwestern University journalist professor Doug Foster’s new book, After Mandela: The Struggle
Africa’s first trans music star
The popular Kudurista, Titica, is one of the the top stars of this growing Angolan dance music form.
The Road Down to ‘Africa’
I never understood why E-Type’s 2002 smash hit ‘Africa’ didn’t really catch on outside Sweden. The
If Africa really is a country …
One of our readers took our title literally.
Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.