An environmental calamity
The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.
Culture
Angola’s Biennale
It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.
Rick Ross is a Country
Rick Ross has since deleted a tweet about landing "in the beautiful country of Africa." He deserved all the scorn. He's been to three African countries already and should know.
A Senegalese Citizen
Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
Your truths are self-evident. Ours are a mystery
In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called "the African non-archive."
On New African Writing
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
Black History in Amsterdam
Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.
The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
Meeting Sembène
An Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, director of films like 'La Vie Sur Terre,' 'Rostov-Luanda,' 'Waiting for Happiness' and 'Bamako.'
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.
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.