Kehinde Wiley paints African football
Wiley, known for painting black men as figures from Renaissance art, now does the same with Africa's best football talents.
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The Transformation of K’naan
How a political song about the aftermath of the Cold War, refugees and statelessness was defanged, first for FIFA and then for Coca Cola.
Johannesburg’s Media World Cup
European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.
Representing Fela
The New York Times' chief theater critic, surprise, misses the point about the musical, "Fela!"
The Bubu King
Janka Nabay is the premier exponent of Sierra Leone's frantic and frenetic Bubu Music.
The Wrong Answer
The nonsense that foreign journalists, who don't understand Afrikaans or the language's creole cultural history, write about Die Antwood.
Abuse of Patriarchy
South African feminist academic, Pumla Gqola, takes on all the whataboutisms thrown up by Jacob Zuma's defenders.
Wole Soyinka Loves Bean Pies
Africa's first Nobel literature laureate is accused of Islamophobia. It is not his first time.
Rhythm like you’ve never seen
No one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feel-good cocktail quite like the South African advertising industry.
Out of Italy
We join forces with the Italian news aggregator Afronline. That and other "Africa" references from this week.
Martin Scorcese namechecks Ousmane Sembene
Scorcese not only restores prints of African cinema classics, he also counts Ousmane Sembene as one of cinema's greatest directors.
What Obama means to Black Americans
Black America want better schools, better jobs, cheaper health care, lower taxes, smaller prison populations, stronger labor unions.