The shadow of the fatherland
Akinola Davies Jr’s feature-length debut traces how Nigeria’s military rule collapsed the boundary between political crisis and intimate life, leaving families to bear the cost of authoritarian power.
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Achille Tenkiang
Achille Tenkiang is a Cameroonian-American culture writer whose work examines African cultural history, politics, and contemporary art across the diaspora. He is based in Brooklyn, NY.
What does a museum mean here?
A dispatch from Benin City tells the unfinished story of the Museum of West African Art.
Velvet rebellions
The oppositional sartorial lens of Congolese sapeurs exposes the limits and frailties of representation work in New York's Met Gala.
African music festivals and the politics of reclamation
Across the continent, music festivals are challenging industry gatekeepers and testing what it means to organize on African terms.