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Latin America and the Caribbean haven’t gotten enough attention on this site. We’re going to intentionally
Latin America and the Caribbean haven’t gotten enough attention on this site. We’re going to intentionally
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
Old Oshodi highlighted the complexity of the city, showcasing the ingenuity of the people of Lagos in their use of the informal market in making a living.
Reading Yewande Omotoso's novel "Bom Boy," just when you think you’ve figured the characters out, the author opens them up a little more, and our perceptions change.
A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.
We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.
Congolese/South African (via Belgium) musician Yannick Ilunga, AKA Iamwaves, has been rather busy lately. His group
A remarkable amount of new films in recent months have used migration, detention and illegal sea crossings as their subject matter.
The film, "Come Back, Africa," first released in 1959, challenged how white liberals imagined black people or tried to shape their struggles in South Africa.
Your weekly #musicbreak roundup. Mokobe and Oumou Sangare pray for peace in Mali:
Since 2004, Le Salon africain (part of the annual Geneva Book Fair) awards the Ahmadou Kourouma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6F553L17g ‘I am Malawi’ is a short documentary by Geert Veuskens and Pieter de Vos. (Part
Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.
Since Friday’s Special was reserved to Sierra Leone — and for archival purposes — here’s your
Globetrotter's organizing logic may be a bit elusive, but the content itself is often quite captivating.
Freedom Day in South Africa. Togo Independence Day. And Sierra Leone’s 51st Independence Day. That’s all
The video, "African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes," made by an American NGO, is part of the "Brand Africa" discourse that's all the rage now.
Djibril Diop Mambéty's film "Touki Bouki" is an excellent example of how the contemporary can be read through the (re)construction of myths and narratives from a collective memory.
One of the striking facts of Nabil Ayouch's film is that Israelis love the land and the Palestinians love it too.
The ever-well-informed African Art in London announced this week that Yinka Shonibare’s contribution to the fourth plinth of