The First Black Woman to win Sundance Best Director
Aava DuVernay leads a movement to organize African-American film festivals and secure theatrical releases for black independent films.
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Dubai could do with a lot more of this
Dubai can actually be a city of gems that might surprise you. Like soul musician Hamdan Al-Abri, who is of Zanzibari descent.
Shoutout Banlieue
Number 8 in our series, Paris Is a Continent, showcasing the music of the French capital, is about bragging rights and one song.
The Nordic Connection
Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.
Colonial Fantasies
Just a sample: A "Heart of Darkness"-themed ship, Tarzan in South Africa and a travelogue on the Congo River.
Africa is a Country is on Twitter and Facebook
We have a new @Africasacountry Twitter account. Follow us there and on Facebook too.
Oprah’s expensive South African education
The talk show host started a private school for girls in South Africa. Shocker: it mostly makes things worse.
Thandie Newton is bi-racial, and not Igbo
Thandi Newton choice as a female lead in the screen adaptation of "Half of a Yellow Sun" has some people upset.
Vincent Kompany is from the DRC
What countries do footballers playing in Europe's top five leagues come from? That's not such a straightforward question and answer.
A photograph cannot give you concrete information
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
The whole ‘Afrobeats’ thing
Afrobeats is broadly what most people think when they try to define black music in the UK. But it is hard to pin down.
The forefront of innovation
There needs to be another solution than free market capitalism globally to promote artistic creativity. The experience from Sierra Leone is not encouraging.