Culture
Vampire teeth
Annual review: Hipsters Don't Dance's "Top 10 African-Caribbean Collaborations" of 2014
The Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
Can an African language literature prize be inherently Pan-African?
Why we can’t breathe
The last few years have revealed that, particularly at the state level, justice for Black Americans is an impossibility.
The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.
Feel the Rainbow
Designer Akosua Afriye-Kumi: "A lot of designers take or find inspiration from Africa, I want to do the same but actually be in Africa doing it."
A New Kind of Romance
Nigerian publisher: it is time the continent’s consumer class gets romance lit that is entertaining and reflect the complexity of their lives.
Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don't Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Kivu Ruhorahoza
Ruhorahoza wished he made "Sans Soleil" by Chris Marker: "The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free."
Purely as artifacts
Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.
Cape Town, Segregation and Hip Hop
It’s very difficult for Spaza (hip hop done mostly in Xhosa) and Afrikaans hip hop to organically co-exist.
African pop reawakens its political roots
Nigerian band VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes wants to open the world's eyes to the political and social realities of the continent through a catchy and danceable repertoire.
Remembering Slavery in South Africa
People forget that for 176 years, racial slavery was the central institution in a large part of the territories that would come to form South Africa.
Mohamed so-and-so from such-and-such
Ridley Scott's "Exodus" and deeply rooted issues of bigotry and racism in Hollywood.
Lessons for black South Africa in black America
Many middle-class black South Africans hold poor and working-class blacks in disregard if not disdain, and believe poor blacks hold themselves back.
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.