What does a museum mean here?
A dispatch from Benin City tells the unfinished story of the Museum of West African Art.
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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.
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.