Kenya gets an Art Fair
Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.
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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.
Soweto Punk Revolution
A punk festival comes close to what one would imagine the DIY-embracing, eccentricity-accepting and obedience-ignoring CBGB’s of the ‘70s to have been like.
Nelson Mandela founded a beauty contest
Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it’s the right time to do it more regularly.
The limits of the idea of “alternative Africas”
How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Jihan El-Tahri
Legendary documentarian Jihan El-Tahri started her career as a journalist, working as a news agency correspondent
Mexico’s deadly virus
The United States lives in a state of constant fear. Currently, Ebola is to blame. The
Moni
I remember being awe-struck by a picture I saw in on the Sunday papers somewhere around
Fifty Four Kingdoms
The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with “a pan-Africanist sensibility.” They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.
Bienvenidos a América Latina es un país
Latin America is a Country is the newest member of the Africa is a Country family. The section is coedited by Pablo Medina Uribe and Camila Osorio.
The Digital Mandela
Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa’s democratic president, Nelson Mandela.
#MyDressMyChoice
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr’e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
Tis the blackface season in the Netherlands
Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.
They do know it’s Christmas
Bob Geldof doesn’t need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
How To Use a Sjambok
This and other lessons from the South African front lines.
Has the giant fallen?
The split within South Africa’s largest trade union federation, COSATU.
Willy Sagnol’s Race Problem
If you tell a lie enough times then people will start believing it as gospel. You
Africa is a Radio, Episode #7
This month’s selection of tunes is from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Colombia, the United States, the U.K., Angola, and classics from East Africa.
The Bullshit Files: The “Mandela Ray Ban Sculpture”
Public art, the vandalism of Nelson Mandela’s legacy for commerce and the spoiling of public space in Cape Town.
The key figures in Colombia’s Picó sound system culture
The sound system, or Picó culture of the Caribbean coast of Colombia is very close to my
Africa Through a Lens
An online archive of photos taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection housed in the UK’s National Archives.