Culture
We are angels, victims of everybody
Looking inside ourselves and working on the dark hearts of our colonial crap.
Black Film, White Masks
Namibian filmmaker, Perivi John Katjavivi: The black voice in cinema occurs on the margins and is filtered, distorted, watered-down, negotiated, corrupted.
To be young, privileged and black in a world of white hegemony
To bear witness to the cacophony of Rhodes Must Fall, as though trying to recall the days of a revolution I was born too late to witness.
A Metaphorical Biography
Santu Mofokeng’s photographs keep you wanting to know who are these people, what's their sophistications, and what's going to happen to these aspirations?
Pura Música
This is our Teca — basically introducting you to some of the coolest, hippest, most recent music from cities around Latin America.
What are ’emerging voices’ and ’emerging countries’?
Why the author asked for his work to be withdrawn from a prestigious literary competition.
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
The Decade of People of African Descent
Ten films we can recommend at the 2015 New York African Film Festival. The theme coincides with that of the United Nations and highlights women filmmakers.
Whip it Good
The Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back.
Africa, in a state of constant self-discovery
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
New African Disco
Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for April 2015.
Testing the fitness of our own instincts
The Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma talks to American photographer and teacher, Eric Gottesman, about his work in Ethiopia.
How Nollywood can save African Literature
African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.