What if black people inverted South Africa’s township tours?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
Some problems between the people and the police
What Egypt’s latest football tragedy says about social divisions in the country.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Hawa Essuman
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like “African stories” is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Do we really need new street names?
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
Stuart Hall in Africa
Though Hall’s work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
Economics has an Africa problem
There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.
Party like its 1999
Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.
Yes, we have some #AdviceForYoungJournalists
It's been a glorious week for journalism, hasn't it? Those fearless warriors for truth and justice,
The West are not those most affected by terrorism
Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film “Timbuktu” complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.
The Grammys are irrelevant
Why are the Grammys so clueless about what is contemporary Latin pop music? They keep handing out awards to veterans like Ruben Blades or Vicente Fernández.
#SAHipHop2014: When South African Hip Hop Met The Internet
It’s all my father’s fault! Sometime towards the end of the nineties, I remember him bringing
The African Rock Art Digital Archive
Last summer, I got the chance to visit the Origins Museum on the University of the
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jim Chuchu
The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.
Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country’s post-socialist modernity through dance.
Football, Disappearances and Disasters in Haiti
The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens’s football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti’s US’s supported dictatorship.
The Black Messiah
John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.
The news from South Africa
…or the constant deferral of reconciliation
Just one long war
The US is re-upping its failed “war on drugs” in Central America. The spin is they will fight “violence and poverty.” This won’t end well.
Bogotá’s Music
Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.