Akin Omotoso’s Country
A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.
South Africa
Pinkwashing South Africa
The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.
New public TV series from South Africa: “I am Woman”
Starting on April 1, South Africa’s public TV channel SABC3 has been running a weekly series
Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an
The Passing of Ernest Cole
We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.
Fighting Pop
Congolese/South African (via Belgium) musician Yannick Ilunga, AKA Iamwaves, has been rather busy lately. His group
The geo-branding war
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide
Uganda, now you have touched the women
In October 2011, the Ugandan government sent Ingrid Turinawe to the infamous Luzira Prison–Uganda’s Guantánamo–for the
The Swarm of Insects Destroying the City
Interview with South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes's about her novel, "Nineveh."
The 19th New York African Film Festival: ‘How to steal 2 million’
In South African director Charlie Vundla’s “How to Steal 2 Million,” Johannesburg is equated with “a
Walking on water
From the Otelo Burning soundtrack (we still owe the soundtrack a review), here’s ‘Walk on Water’
Cape Town: Beautiful Ugly
The city's past and its predilections render neat formulations like Creole city and European city equally hollow.
The Jacob Zuma Era
Coming on June 1 is Northwestern University journalist professor Doug Foster’s new book, After Mandela: The Struggle
The talented Tajdin sisters
They're making a film about "a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black."
My favorite photographs N°2: Scott Williams
South African photographer Scott Williams is the second guest in our new weekly series. He has,
Found Objects N°21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQb5qJRy0QY German singer-songwriter Joy Denalane (born to a South African father who’s a cousin of Hugh
Soweto Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhyqJb0VZtQ What better way to start the week than with some a cappella soul courtesy of
They talk a lot. Let them talk.
That first line is one by Tunde Adebimpe (joined by fellow TV on the Radio musician
The Price of Leadership
A new series of documentaries explore the politics of leadership via an imaginative, malleable, deeply personal treatment of history.