
The African Sources of Knowledge Digital Library
Organized at Harvard University, this digital library contains rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts.

Organized at Harvard University, this digital library contains rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts.

What has been the personal legacy and costs to the Abiola women in Nigeria's struggle for democracy.

Teddy Goitom is a Swedish-Ethiopian/Eritrean content producer and the founder of Stocktown (1998), “a cultural movement celebrating

Can we teach about Latin America not exploiting its shock-value or as a ready-to-consume entity?

Understanding the complex cultural history of Africolombians and how difficult it has been for its artists to fight for recognition.

Singer Kaneng Lolang is a cosmopolitan currently living in Ouagadougou. She’s spent quality time in Siberia and Brooklyn, but her roots are in Nigeria, Lagos, specifically

A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.
In 2010, I acquired an illegal copy of The Clonious’ Between the dots LP after hearing

Africa is a Country is pleased to premiere the music video for “Séké” by DJ Mellow and Steloo:

The Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman put on blackface to fight the racist caricature Zwarte Piet.

With Kwame Nkrumah's support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.

Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.

As a DJ, having the platform of Africa is a Radio to showcase the music I’m

As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.

Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.

A punk festival comes close to what one would imagine the DIY-embracing, eccentricity-accepting and obedience-ignoring CBGB’s of the ‘70s to have been like.

Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it's the right time to do it more regularly.

How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?

Legendary documentarian Jihan El-Tahri started her career as a journalist, working as a news agency correspondent
I remember being awe-struck by a picture I saw in on the Sunday papers somewhere around