What Happened to the African Renaissance?
Last week’s assaults on the tombs of saints, scholars and prominent ancestors in Timbuktu punctuated a long, leaden moment in Mali’s crisis.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Madala Kunene for all seasons
Kunene’s compositions don’t necessarily have a benchmark to conform to, but instead reveal the continuous state of transcendence his music takes.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGset8Etl4o Above is how people keep warm in Johannesburg winters. And below is what you hope
Desmond Tutu, the Patron Saint of Longboard Skateboarders
Shameless self-promotion: "Board Games" is a short documentary video I did for my friend Kent Lingeveldt
The abundance of black fashion
Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.
Utopia Unstuck
Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.
John Terry’s African Alibi
We British like nothing more than a nice inquiry. The exorbitant jail terms meted out to last
The Legacy of Nat Nakasa
Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.
Bathers at Sea Point: Photographs by Antoinette Engel
Antoinette Engel, a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Cape Town (and a friend of this
The Reincarnation of Rockland Palace
A part of Harlem’s ballroom scene gets a makeover and a much needed funding injection and international exposure.
There Are Women in Botswana
It’s not even news that women and children leads AIDS activism in places like Botswana, except when it’s scanted. So, here’s a primer.
Nha morna, nha Terra
The songs that savor the writer Olufemi Terry’s travels through the islands of Cape Verde.
The Photographs of Mary Beth Meehan
Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvRnvP3jY8 Fofo-born Shokanti released a video this week in celebration of Cape Verdean Independence (slipping in
Africa Express: A Different Breed of Alternative Energy
Guest post by Rosie Spinks Hear the words ‘alternative energy in Africa’ and you might think
Independence Day Edition: What’s more ‘American’ than Chevron Corporation?
July 4. U.S. Day of Independence. What’s more 'American’ than … Chevron Corporation? It’s pretty much
In North Kivu, R&B is pure art
http://vimeo.com/42715280 The text that comes with Agata Pietron's photographs of youth in Kiwanja and Rutshuru (North
My delicious ‘Afrigasm’
White Euro-Americans are drawn to Sub Saharan Africa by an urge to explore, do good or by a more existential desire for an encounter with radical difference.
Mozambique versus Spain
African fans retain a surprising affection for old colonizers when it comes to international tournaments. Mozambique is no exception.
Salafists and art in Tunisia
Artists wanted to comment on the political struggles and religious undercurrents roughing up Tunisian society. Religious zealots, backed by the state, shut them down.