Culture

Ride with Malitia Malimob
Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.



Losing London
Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.


Awkward is the New Black
Our short film of the creator and star of "Awkward Black Girl," Issa Rae, whose father is Senegalese and mother is African American and who spent part of her childhood in Dakar.

Broken beat in the Durban underground
The Gqom sound runs the gamut of township flavor until it teases Afro-house and eThekwini (Durban) groove without fully admitting to its Kwaito influence.

Why Should Colonialists be the Centre?
The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."

Music Banned in Nigeria-Edition
This Weekend Music Break, No. 83, features eighteen pop songs that can't be played on Nigerian airwaves. You can still listen on your phone or watch the videos on Youtube.

The vibrant lives of old Claremont
The preservation of nostalgia by evicted black residents of one of Cape Town's now very white suburbs.

How a child deals with loss
For the first time, an Ethiopian film, "Lamb," was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. We interviewed director Yared Zeleke.

Black Magic Women
‘Black Magic Woman’, by Azizaa, from Ghana, is a feminist reclaiming of the sacred from Christianity.

Awesome Beat Tapes From Africa
The writer and musician Sabelo Mkhabela picks a selection of some beat tapes in his possession and writes about them for us.


Aliens in Lagos
The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'


The African roots of the Americas
There is a lot of ignorance about Afro-Latinos, despite the deep history dating back to the introduction of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Body Politricks and the Worlds in Between
A review of American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me"