Gay in Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.

The View from Freetown

• Anni Lyngskaer

An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone's capital.

Madagascar at the Oscars

• Allison Swank

A French filmmaker witnesses a "the turning of the dead people" ceremony in Madagascar. Amazingly, the film explores this event without necessarily exoticizing it.

The Murder of David Kato

• Africa Is a Country

This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu's murder.

A’na Afriki

• Boima Tucker

The connections and shared lineage between Africa and the countries of the Arabian peninsula.

Luanda is Expensive

• Marissa Moorman

Those who pay the highest price for the high cost of living in the Angolan capital are not expatriates, but Angolans.

The Uprising

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.

Branding The New Black

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.

Found Object, No. 11

• Sean Henry Jacobs

I'm Gonna Dance

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Black Portrait Symposium

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Race Card

• Sean Henry Jacobs