Culture
The Community Video Education Trust
A digital collection that enhances understandings of the South African struggle against apartheid through the medium of film.
Robert Sobukwe’s Children
The members of Johannesburg rock band, The Brother Moves On, see themselves as Pan-Africanists.
Maghreb Lyon
The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.
You Want Another Rap
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala, Uganda. Because they are.
Archiving black South African LGBTQI
Muholi on inspirations: "Audre Lorde will always be my favorite because she informed a lot of us, gave us a new way of thinking."
A locally-driven vision of African identity and space
Using Instagram, photographer Fati Abubakar wants to take us beyond Boko Haram in Nigeria's Borno State.
Where is “America”?
Before Columbus’ arrival, there were already millions of people living in America, who we could say had “discovered it."
Cowries and Rice
The global impact of the exchanges and experiences between China and Africa.
Bigger and bigger
Every month, Hipsters Don't Dance send us their "Top World Carnival Tunes." This is September 2015's chart.
Rewriting the Black Mediterranean
Igiaba Scego is one of the most prominent voices of a new cohort of Black writers in Italy.
Memory, between nostalgia and archive
The relevance of Mauritius in the flows and exchanges between global superpowers, especially Britain and the United States.
The technological circuits of the African diaspora
Given this history of Black dispersal and displacement, what might a liberatory mobility look like?
The Memory Box
The digitization of oral histories of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath.
Morocco’s ‘African’ identity
It will be Moroccans overseas that will give Gnawa music and culture an extra push towards the center of Morocco’s cultural identity.
The holy fire that burns in the home
An interview with Richard Pakleppa, director of 'Paths To Freedom', a film on Namibian liberation.