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.
No matter where they are, the children of African heads-of-state live lives comically far-removed from those of the average citizen in their home countries.
The war in Sudan shows how during conflict, the internet is as critical as food or medicine.
South Africa’s pivot to electricity markets will be socially regressive, whether green or not.
In 1991, acclaimed South African artist Helen Sebidi’s artworks were presumed stolen in Sweden. Three decades later, a caretaker at the residential college where they disappeared found them in a ceiling cupboard, still in their original packaging.
The EU’s military involvement in West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, South Sudan, and East Africa is well-known. But one mission on the continent has gone relatively unnoticed.
Todos sabem do envolvimento militar da União Europeia (EU) na África Ocidental, no Golfo da Guiné, no Sudão do Sul e na África Oriental. No entanto, uma missão no continente passou relativamente despercebida.
The protests against illegal mining in Ghana are revealing how the country’s political class still fears an engaged citizenry.
How the UAE-backed RSF looted Sudan’s National Museum.
Without an immediate halt to US arms to Israel, it’s hard to see why Israel should stop slaughtering civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.
While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?
A new biography of former apartheid homeland leader Lucas Mangope struggles to do more than arrange the actions of its subject into a neat chronology.
Decolonial African feminism and the revolutionary lives of three mothers of Kenya.
This month, Algeria quietly held its second election since Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted in 2019. On the podcast, we ask what Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s second term means for the country.
A new Disney short film series dramatizes traditional African storytelling for the big screen. Does it succeed?
Assassinated in 1978, Henri Curiel was a Jewish Egyptian Marxist whose likely killers include fascist French-Algerian colons, the apartheid South African Bureau of State Security, and the Abu Nidal Organization.
The Malcolm X effect of Gambian-British activist Momodou Taal.
Hiking as Kenyans in Kenya is pathbreaking, both literally and metaphorically.
Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?
One country is Anglophone, and the other is Francophone. Still, there are between 1 to 4 million people of Nigerian descent living in Côte d’Ivoire today.
Un pays est anglophone et l’autre est francophone. Quoi qu’il en soit, entre 1 et 4 millions de personnes d’origine nigériane vivent aujourd’hui en Côte d’Ivoire.