Like a showbiz Muammar Gaddafi
The contradictions and tensions in pop legend Michael Jackson’s relationship with the African continent.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
South Africa’s new youth underground?
“We’ve got Ferraris in Africa. What they gon’ say now?”, says one of the young people in a new video. Is that the ethics of South Africa’s young?
We need to talk about Jeremy Clarkson
“Top Gear” presents Africa as background to white, English gentlemanly machismo.
Will the UK ever give up on its racist immigration policy?
There have been lots of stories in the British press recently related to immigration, and these have made it clear that a sentiment still exists that is opposed to the familiar xenophobia with which the topic is usually discussed in the UK.
People are going to know who Bob Hewitt is
Bob Hewitt migrated from Australia to apartheid South Africa. There he became a champion in white tennis. He is also accused of abusing children whose families trusted him as their tennis coach.
Controversy and the National Arts Theatre in Lagos
The theater, built by the military and finished in time for FESTAC in 1977, has always been a site of public disagreement.
Zambian skull (plus Zambian guide) in a London art gallery
The Thai-born artist, Pratchaya Phinthong, mines Zambia’s colonial history to explore how historical narratives are performed through objects.
Sathima’s swansong
There is a time for everything: Between Afropunk and the passing of a musical legend, Sathima Bea Benjamin, is our Weekend Music Break.
Violence against children doesn’t take place in a vacuum
A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.
Who no know go know
The words and images found in the Chronic have a tendency to defy simple consumption.
South African Low-Fi Freedom
A group of artists attempt to democratized the image of the country’s past through ripping clips off Youtube to re-author what South Africans once knew.
Chief Boima Interviews … Kae Sun
In our current #hashtag fueled media landscape, it is fairly hard for an up-and-coming artist to
Photographing the African Diaspora in New York City
A group of graduate students in New York photograph the city’s immigrant and refugee communities, especially the African ones.
Monday morning quarterback
The first of our weekly posts on football’s goings-on, focusing on the politics of money, identity, and the power struggles shaping the game.
Escaping categorization
Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye doesn’t want to be pigeonholed. Neither does he want his country to be. So his art actively works against that.
Joyful Melancholy
Alex Lomani is part of the Congolese diaspora, who has lived in the US, the DRC and South Africa. He has just released “Mélancolie Joyeuse,” a free EP on Bandcamp of four songs that each speak to his personal experience over the past couple of years.
Isabel’s People
When Forbes, who used to celebrate the Dos Santos family, starts asking questions about the wealth of Angola’s rulers.
Täschligate
Why does Oprah Winfrey or anyone else need a $38,000 handbag and why would someone sell her that.
The discourse about a film
What are the politics of the briefly banned film “Of Good Report”?
Michael Caine on the Cape Flats
The film “Zulu” – starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom – are getting lukewarm reviews. Is the novel, it’s based on, any good?