New York City artist Maria Buyondo grew up in Russia and Sweden, the child of a Russian mother and an Ugandan father.
Filmmaker (and AIAC collaborator) Nerina Penzhorn made a series of video profiles for Smack Mellon Gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. This one is about New York City artist Maria Buyondo.
Buyondo grew up in Russia and Sweden, the child of a Russian mother and an Ugandan father.
A book by writer Melissa Thackway and director Jean-Marie Teno highlights an ethical and politically engaged partnership between filmmaker and film critic.
On March 20th there will be a national shutdown in South Africa. On that day, join us for a discussion in Johannesburg on the effectiveness and future of the South African left.
The Zambian state must make better concessions regarding free speech. The people have been demanding that since independence.
In South African cricket, almost three decades after white rule ended, “local talent” means “local white talent,” even if you’re the national team captain.
In Nigeria’s recent election cycle, many citizens looked to Peter Obi for change. But the country needs people-led social transformation, not saviors.
African women en route to Europe often land up stuck in Morocco, taking on precarious work as hairdressers and beauticians.
The war in Ukraine indicates a new world disorder, where great powers fight for primacy and Africa continues to be exploited.
Why is South Africa suffering from up to 12 hours of blackouts a day? On this podcast, we explain the country’s energy crisis.
The author of ‘Now You Know How Mapetla Died,’ a book on the murder of a leading Black Consciousness leader, writes about her research.
Filmmaker Khady Sylla amplifies the voices of and gives visibility to the domestic workers tending to the homes of Africa’s middle classes.
Asking whether white people should curate African art anymore, may be outdated. Instead we should ask: what is African art now and does the category matter anymore?
In its first few years, the magazine ‘Révolution Africaine’ opened possibilities for Franco-Algerian cooperation. It was then co-opted by the state.
Tommie Sankange was the first black American public figure permanently residing in Zimbabwe who was not a missionary. Why don’t we know more about her?
The notion that black people were kings in Ancient Egypt is generating a social media backlash. Understanding the racialized legacy of Egyptology can explain why.
A few days after Nigeria’s presidential elections, with a disputed winner declared, here are some initial conclusions and prospects.
Successive Ethiopian governments have continued a ‘modernizing’ project that not only offers people false dreams, but actively dislocates them from the things that gave them purpose in the past.
By looking through the lenses of Brussels’ diverse youth, ‘The Porters’ questions the ways Belgium fails to deal with its colonial past.
2023 marks 50 years since the Durban Strikes. It doesn’t fit neatly fit into mainstream accounts of the struggle against South African apartheid.
On the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, neither the West or Russia can clearly explain how exactly the rest of humanity, especially Africans, wins from their respective preferred outcomes.
Peter Obi, one of the three main candidates for Nigerian president, is neither a savior nor a socialist, but his candidacy and his supporters have enlivened Nigerian elections.