London – Africa is a Country

There is a silent story when studying global history in the UK. This is the history of the slave route from the African …

Back, but a little delayed due to our site maintenance/redesign are Hipster’s Don’t Dance with their Novembe…

My first thought when reading Taiye Selasi’s 2005 essay ‘Bye-Bye Barbar’ (or ‘What is an Afropolitan?’) was that t…

Somewhere in the opening shot of The Assassin’s Practice there is a woman crying alone in bed, tangled in a blue room. I…

This year Africa is a Country is partnering with Film Africa, London’s only annual African film festival to review some …

The London Olympics starts tonight and certain streets of the city are swollen with purple-shirted volunteers, track-sui…

The ‘Gaddafi Archives – Libya Before the Arab Spring’, which opened this week at the London Festival of Photography is a…

Here in London we have been having a lot of trouble with pageants. After the riots last August, the state is hoping that…

Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the buoyancy of contemporary Afri…

The second Numbi of 2012 happened – with undeniable flamboyance – last Saturday, bringing a team of ‘Afropolitan divas’,…

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