Apartheid Israel
Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Edwin Chota is dead
What’s driving the violence against Latin American environmentalists?
The Struggle of Afrocolombian Music
Understanding the complex cultural history of Africolombians and how difficult it has been for its artists to fight for recognition.
How not to write about Africa: Use “African Spring”
The “Arab Spring” has become our reference point for revolutions in this digital age, including in Africa south of the Sahara. It’s ahistorical.
Constant Messiah
Singer Kaneng Lolang is a cosmopolitan currently living in Ouagadougou. She’s spent quality time in Siberia and Brooklyn, but her roots are in Nigeria, Lagos, specifically
Africa Cartoons
A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.
The Right to Grow Old: Photos of the Central American Migrant Crisis
Central American migration, and especially the migration of undocumented children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
#SAHipHop2014: @Okmalumkoolkat has a new album
In 2010, I acquired an illegal copy of The Clonious' Between the dots LP after hearing
Music Video Premiere: DJ Mellow and Steloo’s “Séké”
Africa is a Country is pleased to premiere the music video for "Séké" by DJ Mellow and Steloo:
Is it a good idea to use blackface to shame racism?
The Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman put on blackface to fight the racist caricature Zwarte Piet.
The photographer Paul Strand’s Portraits of 1960s Ghana
With Kwame Nkrumah’s support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.
Have we learned nothing?
Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.
Football between above and below
In “Futebol Nation,” British journalist David Goldblatt explores the social and political history of Brazilian football.
Making Azonto: Local Roots and International Branches
As a DJ, having the platform of Africa is a Radio to showcase the music I'm
Giving politicians a lyrical trashing
As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.
Belgium’s blackface problem
Racism in Belgium is endemic, and not taken seriously. Few people talk about it and even fewer are listening.
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.
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?