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."
Culture
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.
Dictators and Pop Stars
A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.
The Smiling Faces of Young Africans
When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture' any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.
Puppet History
Peter Muhumuza Tuke's film "Kengere" - using puppets - tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda's civil war.
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Everybody take out your bicycles
An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.
Gay in Africa
Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.
The View from Freetown
An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone's capital.