Music Banned in Nigeria-Edition
This Weekend Music Break, No. 83, features eighteen pop songs that can’t be played on Nigerian airwaves. You can still listen on your phone or watch the videos on Youtube.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The vibrant lives of old Claremont
The preservation of nostalgia by evicted black residents of one of Cape Town’s now very white suburbs.
Ghana’s CHALE WOTE Street Arts Festival and the corporations
The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival in Accra has grown over the last four years, expanding
How a child deals with loss
For the first time, an Ethiopian film, “Lamb,” was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. We interviewed director Yared Zeleke.
Black Magic Women
‘Black Magic Woman’, by Azizaa, from Ghana, is a feminist reclaiming of the sacred from Christianity.
Awesome Beat Tapes From Africa
The writer and musician Sabelo Mkhabela picks a selection of some beat tapes in his possession and writes about them for us.
Weekend Music Break No.82 – Catch up edition!
Africa is a Country has been on break for about a month, and in that time we've
At the Heart of the West Indies Parade
In New York City, Labor Day is associated with the West Indies Carnival. This enormous parade
One Hundred Academics for Ayahuasca Dignity in Colombia
Yagé, or ayahuasca, is the name of a plant and also of a beverage made from
What Serena Williams communicates on the tennis court
One key to black style is the fact that, relative to white Americans, black people don’t have much room “for make believe.”
The lions and the hunters
Lions and black people are not the same or even straightforwardly comparable. But it is true that something wants them both dead.
The politics of homophobia in Kenya
Why US President Barack Obama blundered by speaking out on LGBTQ rights in Kenya.
#Free15Angolans: An update
You’d never know it from reading the US media, but 15 political prisoners in Angola are still in jail.
Aliens in Lagos
The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, ‘Lagoon.’
New South African feature ‘Endless River’ makes film history
South African film director and auteur Oliver Hermanus has made film history this week and his
Between prison and deportation
Sudanese asylum-seeker to Israel’s president: “Why not let us stay and contribute to Israeli society?”
The African roots of the Americas
There is a lot of ignorance about Afro-Latinos, despite the deep history dating back to the introduction of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Body Politricks and the Worlds in Between
A review of American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”
Kenyan gays want their rights
The denial of a gay Kenyan existence is an affront to the Kenyan LGBTQ community, their talents, hopes and aspirations
When I was in school, being African was a diss
Here’s Hipsters Don’t Dance’s monthly installment of “Top World Carnival Tunes” for July 2015.