The civilizing mission of the white man
The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany's arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.
Culture
Exploring rootlessness and confusion
The director, Frances Bodomo, originally from Ghana, talks about her film "Boneshaker" and African globalization.
The elderly, the blind and people with albinism
In which category would the South African photographer Pieter Hugo place himself? What do they stand for or what his photographs can and cannot tell.
The best sports films have no play in them
Tunde Kelani's "Maami," a tale about a former professional footballer, is bold and stylish film-making, and it deserves a wide audience.
The Racial Politics of Tuareg Nationalism
Historian Greg Mann is not a big fan of Tuareg group, Tinariwen. The music is alright, he agrees, but the politics is rancid.
Cape Town: Beautiful Ugly
The city's past and its predilections render neat formulations like Creole city and European city equally hollow.
We are the remains
This is Number 11 in my occasional series of posts highlighting the music of my hometown, Paris, also a center of Europe's African diaspora.
Africa’s first trans music star
The popular Kudurista, Titica, is one of the the top stars of this growing Angolan dance music form.
If Africa really is a country . . .
One of our readers took our title literally.
Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.
The talented Tajdin sisters
They're making a film about "a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black."
The Sudanese pioneer of African cinema
In 1969, Gadalla Gubara and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Timité Bassori and Mustapha Alassane came up with an idea: FESPACO.