The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Meeting Sembène
An Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, director of films like ‘La Vie Sur Terre,’ ‘Rostov-Luanda,’ ‘Waiting for Happiness’ and ‘Bamako.’
Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a “Pro Twerk Team” may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
The battle over the 27th of May in Angola
Why the ruling MPLA wants to control how we remember the murder of dissidents killed right after independence.
Germany’s African “Big Five”
Germany’s a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
The new and improved Africa is a Country is here
After weeks of promising you a new design, we’re back with a brand-new and improved blog. This is a big day for us.
Africa is a Country is getting a makeover
We’re updating our design and will be back soon with a fresh new look. Stay tuned.
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s new film “Grigris” and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir, among others.
The BBC’s standards when it comes to South Africa
Western media’s repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.
The unfounded fears of a Zulu hegemony
The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country’s other indigenous languages for use in higher education.
The Real Housewives of Harare
It’s election season in Zimbabwe, and so, as before, the State has engaged in 'urban renewal’
Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country’s present.
Enough is enough
Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.
Weekend Music Break, N°42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYvyZBmN3s Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass (the Mozambican-Portuguese-Ghanaian-German duo who go by the name of Gato
The Cartography of Bullshit
The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.
How to Please Your Man “Zambia Style”
A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what “liberated, spoiled, but also insecure” Western women can learn from their African counterparts.
5 New Films to Watch Out For, N°27
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is the creative debut feature of director Terence Nance who we
Football Referee of the Year
My knowledge of European club football doesn't stretch much further beyond what gets posted here on
The Minister of Earth and Sky
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president’s son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?
Aristide Zolberg and African Studies
A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.