K.ommando Toxik’s output has been prolific this year. See for example their Persona Non Grata or their appearance in the all-star videos Le Clip Kongolais and Bana Congo RD. “Afrika Star” is another single from their latest album. Shot in ‘les 2 Congos’ (Kinshasa and Brazzaville), it also features Mokobé and M’Passi.–Tom Devriendt.
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.
The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.
The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.
Da Namíbia até a Armênia, e de Ruanda à Bósnia, os perpetradores de assassinato em massa afirmam estar agindo em legítima defesa.
From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense.
In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.
Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.
South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.
New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.
To see Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest film as condoning the West’s orientalism is to to ignore the agency of the women in it.
We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment.
We need to envisage a future where colonial privileges between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean sea are completely dismantled.
Why are Kenya’s doctor’s on strike?
Far from democratic institutions, a study of Israeli universities reveals that they are, in fact, directly and actively complicit in Israeli apartheid and racial rule.
With regional and global powers keen to take advantage of the DRC’s mineral wealth, it is hard to see how things can get better for the country in the short and medium term.