Culture
Beyond the usual South African reporting on “Africa”
Journalism on and about the continent tends to veer between the extremes of neglect or stereotype on the one end, and touristic exoticism on the other.
The African Summer Olympics
The highlights of the 2016 Rio Olympics, including why Kenyan athletes were not wearing matching outfits at the opening ceremony.
Still doing the right thing
It is eerie (and tragic) how relevant the themes of racial tension and structural violence of Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing' still is — both in America and South Africa.
The Freetown Sound Edition
Blood Orange and Sampha are two London-raised artists with Sierra Leonean roots, currently making waves on both sides of the Atlantic.
Story of a South African Farm School
Events at South Africa's oldest agricultural college become an object lesson in how mastery over language upholds mastery over land.
Poetry as design
Collapsing the binaries hard-wired into the logic and narrative of “uber-gentrification;” the latter representing the conquest of science over art, technology over soul and innovation over old.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni's work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
The Edge of Wrong
The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.
The Uber driver and Muhammad Ali
When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you're not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.
Capturing Nigerian histories before they disappear
The Nsibidi Institute Memory Project attempts to use digital forums to preserve popular, everyday memories of Nigeria.
Olu’s Omniverse from the African Future(s)
Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.
Are you an African artist?
Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?
Suburban Bliss
Is the new benchmark in South African cinema “Happiness Is A Four Letter Word"?
