A Social History of the Gambia
An archive – stretching from 1820 to 1960 – of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Tunde Kelani
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.
Can Malawi cope with another severe flood?
The floods that have devastated much of the southern region of Malawi represent one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s history.
The BLK Brother: uniting Johannesburg’s finest BLK JKS and The Brother Moves On
In 2013 South African alterna-rockers, BLK JKS and The Brother Moves On, met in Paris to represent
Why is this the story being told now?
The selective memory of ‘Plot for Peace,’ documentary film about South Africa’s transition.
Ivorian designer Loza Maléombho’s #AlienEdits selfie series
The #AlienEdits series seems to come as a form of resistance to negative social projections regarding race, gender, sexuality and culture.
On The Way to School
A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think – in static, sometimes pathologizing images – of kids elsewhere.
The Western Imagination of Morocco
Why at this late hour would The New York Times want to recycle Paul Bowles’ racist fantasies of Morocco?
The imagination of the United Nations
Why aren’t Africans living on the continent part of the United Nations’ International Decade for People of African Descent?
Are Corporations Colonizing the UN?
If market-focused empowerment becomes the norm in development, who will want to learn about politics or find out why their countries are poor in the first place?
The Wizard of Zimbabwe
What do you when your 70 year old South African father wants to meet Robert Mugabe for his birthday. Make a film about it.
A beautiful vision of resistance
“Timbuktu,” the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.
Romance and the average Yoruba girl
Are quirky white people with thriving, trendy careers in New York City, the only ones to find love?
The average person in Uganda
Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.
I hate Spur!
Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.
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.
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.