Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a "Pro Twerk Team" may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
Culture
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's new film "Grigris" and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, among others.
The unfounded fears of a Zulu hegemony
The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country's other indigenous languages for use in higher education.
Enough is enough
Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.
Weekend Music Break, N°42
Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass (the Mozambican-Portuguese-Ghanaian-German duo who go by the name of Gato Preto)
5 New Films to Watch Out For, N°27
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is the creative debut feature of director Terence Nance who we
Weekend Music Break, N°42
Many collaborations and surprise comebacks popped up in our feeds this week. First, this one by
5 New Films to Watch, N°26
Kicking off this week and running until the 26th of May, the fifth edition of Festival
Grime’s Deepest Darkest Africa
Not sure what is empowering about a UK grime artist explicitly glorifying African conflict and capitalizing on the fear and violence that it entails.
An African inspired fantasy world
Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.
Weekend Music Break, N°41
From Luanda: Dj Djeff has Nacobeta, Agre G & Game Walla doing their thing in the
A Day in Ouagadougou
Watching the film "Tamani," there's no need to understand the local languages to get a taste of what Ouaga sounds like.
Afropolitan Dreams in Brooklyn
Blitz the Ambassador's last major project was 'Native Sun.' Now he is taking the party on the road.
Beignets and Nigerian meat pies
Nollywood, the world’s second largest film industry, produces over 2000 films annually, and now, seven of its best will be screened at France’s first ever NollywoodWeek Paris.
Weekend Music Break, N°40
South African kwaito group Mafikizolo underscored their comeback this week with the release of the video
5 New Films to Watch, N°25
The Supreme Price is ambitious both in its scope and its intentions: “Following the annulment of
How to text someone you love
An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.
Where the thing in her head translated well
An interview with the filmmaker Dehanza Rogers, about the film "Sweet, Sweet Country," a fictional film capturing the harsh personal choices of Africans in Clarkson, a town in Georgia known for its large immigrant population.
The new “Celebrity Map of Africa”
It's not just Euro-Americans who want to save Africa. Celebrities and entertainers from Asia and Eastern Europe want in too.
Right in front of your eyes
Claudio Silva emailed fellow Angolan, photographer Rui Sérgio Afonso, to tell us about his favorite images.