Culture


The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo's whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.



When Richard Pryor dressed up as “a tribal bushman”
This was for the cover art of one of his comedy albums: "The cover looked totally real, like a cover of National Geographic."

John Akomfrah is Brilliant
British filmmaker John Akonfrah will be artist-in-residence this Spring at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.



‘The Worst Place To Be Gay’
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.