Pan African Space Station, NYC
A periodic, pop-up live radio studio, a performance and exhibition space, a research platform and living archive.
Video
Awkward is the New Black
Our short film of the creator and star of "Awkward Black Girl," Issa Rae, whose father is Senegalese and mother is African American and who spent part of her childhood in Dakar.
Thirty Days Of Joburg City
Rendani Nemakavhani (alias Missblacdropp) is a Johannesburg-based graphic designer and illustrator who initiated the collaborative project
What if black people inverted South Africa’s township tours?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don't Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
The BBC gets Rwanda wrong
It is a lot to ask the world to accept the multiple truths of Rwanda and it was too much for the film to explain this picture in all of its complicated nuance and actually share with us what remains untold about Rwanda’s story.
Have we learned nothing?
Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.
The Dookoom Debate
What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?
The Rusty and Golden Radiators are back!
The Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH), the organization responsible for the brilliant Africa for Norway campaign, is
Black Europe and Body Politics
The collective BE.BOP works to introduce a decolonial way of thinking about the visual arts in Europe and Africa.
Searching for Brenda Fassie
Tseliso Monaheng and Kagiso Mnisi speak to the editor of an edited book about South African pop star, Brenda Fassie: "I'm Not Your Weekend Special."
The perfect wall to paint
The illustrators Fuzzy Slipperz and Skubalisto and the photographer Mooki Mooks on being an artist in present-day South Africa.
Boxing lesson
Our video department went to train at the Hillbrow Boxing Club in downtown Johannesburg.
Sex and the City meets Americanah
"An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
Fokn Bois in a Dutch village
It is not clear what Ghanaian duo Fokn Bois, on tour in the Netherlands, was doing visiting a boring Dutch town, Liesbeth. But it turned out to be fun.
A wayward couple in Dakar
Martin Scorsese digitally restores Djibril Diop Mambéty’s masterpiece Touki Bouki.
The donkey that carried the cloud on its back
A Kenyan film asks in order to evolve, what part of ourselves do we keep and what part do we leave behind.
Somali Justice
A rare and informative glimpse into a situation and part of the world that normally only receives minimal, lazy, and inaccurate coverage.
Anthony Bourdain goes to South Africa
For his CNN food travel show, Bourdain picks black Gauteng rather than pretend-European Cape Town and the Western Cape.
The new South African family film
The idea that a post-racial South Africa can only be achieved through the adoption of white ideals, culture, and norms by black South Africans.