When I say Africa
Why are stories about African suffering so persistent?
Why are stories about African suffering so persistent?
Mabel Cetu is considered South Africa's first Black woman photojournalist and documented the everyday lives of Black communities in the 1950s.
The second 'Black Panther' film is a fierce critique of the West's (neo)colonial adventures in Africa and the Americas.
Queer Indians are largely invisible in South Africa's LGBT discourse. But representation is not enough, we need political transformation and multi-racial class solidarity.
In a US confronting its own anti-black racism, sentimental imaginings of Africa do little but uphold the white savior industrial complex.
We are usually more attuned to Africa’s pains than to Africa’s pleasures. What would studying African pleasures, beyond censorious judgment, look like?
A novel and Netflix film about Spanish colonialism in Equatorial Guinea raises questions about appropriation and storytelling.
13 years after Binyavanga Wainaina's satirical essay, many "experts" on Africa continue to fail to comprehend the need for African voices in stories about the continent.
There is a long history of white artists representing black people in France, reproducing stereotypes and failing to capture the people they claim to represent.
Journalism on and about the continent tends to veer between the extremes of neglect or stereotype on the one end, and touristic exoticism on the other.
For the last three months, we have been working on the sound design of my first
Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?
Following protest action at the University of Cape Town and Wits University in Johannesburg against higher
Heritage inspires content and art conjures thought. With this ethos guiding us, Rebecca Oheneasah Hesse and I launched
One of the things you must accept when you work in the advertising industry is that
Namibian filmmaker, Perivi John Katjavivi: The black voice in cinema occurs on the margins and is filtered, distorted, watered-down, negotiated, corrupted.
The hashtag #CadaanStudies put the spotlight on the domination of Somali Studies by whites scholars.
Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and
Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.
Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast