Parisian Africa
Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.
Congo-Brazzaville
Black Bazar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841i137-CYg Alain Mabanckou’s 2009 novel Black Bazar spoke successfully to and about the African diaspora in
Serge Ibaka Has No Country
We don't blame people those who can't figure out their DRC from their ROC or their Kinshasa from their Brazzaville.
Music Break. YaoBobby ft. Fredy Massamba
There’s a fast growing collection of cross-over hip hop songs produced by Central and West African
Independence August
Since we’ll be on break for a minute (details tomorrow) when the following central African countries
Street Photographers in Brazzaville
By Lebon Ziavoula, a member of Congo-Brazzaville photographers collective, Generation Elili. Via Afrique in Visu.
Black Atlantic Identity Politics
Two years later, Barack Obama's election as US President still influence cultural production on the continent.
The society of elegant people
What is it about Congolese men who dress up in tropical weather like they're on a catwalk in Paris sometime in late Fall?