Benedicte Kurzen’s often graphic images of the recent (April 16) presidential elections in Nigeria and its aftermath–the elections were won by Goodluck Jonathan. At last count, more than 200 people were dead and nearly 40,000 people displaced in post-election violence.
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The charge is “misusing a computer.” Dr. Stella Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison.
At this year’s New York African Film Festival, we saw films united by key thematic concerns, some of them quite unexpected.
Africa is apparently hot in Hollywood, but can Hollywood be trusted with African stories?
The future of Kenya’s matatus (commuter buses) and their inherent place in the capital Nairobi’s culture and society, is all but absent in the government’s neoliberal vision for urban planning.
What a documentary film on running can tell us about Ethiopia’s development trajectory.
In memory of J. Michael Dash, the Caribbean thinker and literature scholar.
Ghana is facing widespread illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in its coastal waters causing economic hardship in fishing communities.
As the African Union embarks on its most ambitious project—creating the largest free-trade area in the world—we have some questions.
A film about Cape Town’s water crisis raises profound questions about the character and stability of South Africa’s post-apartheid trajectory.
In contrast to renewed fears in the west over Russian expansionism in Africa, Russia’s increased presence on the continent is mostly about pursuing lucrative business opportunities.
Traditional, Islamic and Christian leaders are all being caught up in the conflict over secession in the Southern Cameroons.
We need to understand how climate change impacts the current and future flow of refugees and displaced persons, and ask why the protection needs of climate refugees are not being met.
A documentary film takes Fanon’s ideas out of the past and tracks the ways in which his ideas are resonating with today’s young across the planet.
A commentary on how Egyptian society treats the abandoned, disabled, or those suffering from ailments deemed a risk.
What does Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Fela Kuti’s New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti’s legacy in Nigeria.
How should Belgium’s Africa Museum address its colonial past?
Jerry Rawlings is widely cited by working class people as one of Ghana’s best presidents. But his legacy is complicated by his association with political violence as a military dictator, and by his ushering in of neoliberalism.
Beyond national elections, the Y’en a Marre political movement is changing Senegalese civic and political life for future generations.
The last 20 years of liberal democracy in Nigeria have been marred by crises. The next election should be the Left’s target.
Binyavanga’s fashion sensibility (the caftans, the dresses, the hats, the dyed hair) and his choices in his memoir, and his essays, will have a lasting impact.
