Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don't Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
London
The Afropolitan Must Go
Is it a good idea to separate African urbanites from the rest of their cohort? How is that even constructive, wonders the writer of Norwegian and Tanzanian descent.
Steven Soderbergh in Nollywood
Director Andrew Okoko's "The Assassin's Practice" tampers with the tempo of melodrama. It's also Nollywood's response to Soderbergh's "Bubble."
Credit Credit Art
The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London's "Festival of the World with Mastercard."
Gaddafi Archives at the London Photography Festival
The ‘Gaddafi Archives – Libya Before the Arab Spring’, which opened this week at the London
A Room Adrift in London
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
Where is contemporary African art? Not at Bonhams
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the
Afropolitan Divas
Numbi, a gathering space for the Somali diaspora artists in the UK, expands its focus to include poetry and music from elsewhere in East Africa and elsewhere at a showcase in East London.
Yinka Shonibare’s National Treasure
The ever-well-informed African Art in London announced this week that Yinka Shonibare’s contribution to the fourth plinth of
Thrones no one wants to sit on
Gonçalo Mabunda’s chilling constructions are now on display at the Jack Bell gallery in London. His
Are ‘African jokes’ played out?
Who (can) make "African jokes", are they funny or do they go too far?
Get Up, Stand Up
Tunisian born artist Amel Bennys, who works between Tunis and Paris, has just had her first
Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed
Music Break / Michael Kiwanuka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlXkKCa2yy0 Another Michael Kiwanuka tune.
Naija, London
Photographer Liz Johnson Artur, first arrived in Peckham, London, 20 years ago to live. A neighborhood
'Afropolitans'
If in London next Friday. Press Statement from the Victoria and Albert Museum: On 24 June
'The Journey'
New track and video, above, for “O Caminho” (The Journey) by London-based rappers Mohammed Yahya (b.
'Insurrection'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled
The Sudanese architect
The film "Limbo" covers the frustated life and dreams of Sudanese immigrant and trained architect, Issam.