The first Kenyan mockumentary about NGO’s
"The Samaritans" explores the absurdities of the NGO world. The main characters work for "Aid for Aid," a fictitious NGO that “does nothing.”
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The Art of Mimi Cherono Ng’ok
After years in South Africa, Ng'ok's work now explores her own relation to places, people and spaces of her native Nairobi.
How to say Lupita Nyong’o
Please do your research, stretch your tongue, and practice saying Lupita's name. The Kenyan actress, born in Mexico, plans be around at the top for a while.
Breaking: African artists use the Internets
Mainstream Western media outlets are only now learning to recognize and value diverse and creative African phenomena that have thrived for years.
The donkey that carried the cloud on its back
A Kenyan film asks in order to evolve, what part of ourselves do we keep and what part do we leave behind.
Wangechi Mutu in conversation with Trevor Schoonmaker
Schoonmaker: When did you start to see work by African artists that you did respond to?
Morbid nostalgia
What's wrong with the 'Africa' journalism of Aidan Hartley, a staple in rightwing UK media like 'The Spectator' and 'The Daily Mail."
The Westgate Mall photographs
The photographs of the terror attack at Nairobi's Westgate Mall depict an ordinary day for people at the mall gone terribly wrong.
The Story of Sankofa
A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.
The Politics of Spectacular Violence
The reactions to the Westgate Mall attacks in Nairobi makes clear the differentiation between human lives that are worthy of grief, and those that are not.
This is not only Ghana’s loss
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.
The Black Atlantis
The negative effects of tourism, globalization, and commercialization in Zanzibar.
Two responses to Mindy Budgor, “Maasai warrior princess”
Yesterday we reluctantly posted on Mindy Budgor, memoirist and professional attention-seeker who’s telling anyone who’ll listen
Tuleka Prah’s African Food Map
The genesis of the idea was simple and uncomplicated. I was looking for a recipe online
Our colonial torturers
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
Kenyan Neorealism
Nairobi Half Life is a smart, take-no-prisoners action movie that makes us to wrestle with the neoliberal city.
Weekend Music Break, N°35
We hardly ever feature Brazilian music, and even less their take on Afrobeat. The above tune by
The monster under the house
Elections provide opportunities for national self-examination and renewal, maybe not in Kenya.
The Western Journalist in Africa
The question for Western journalists is this – when it comes to Africa, why do you not tell the whole story of the humanity at work even in times of extreme violence?
Kenya is More than its Election
The Kenyan people have voted. The Kenyan elections have come and not quite gone. The foreign