Actual questions from a South African journalist
The long-held and widespread attitudes some South African journalists share about the struggle for liberation.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Tuleka Prah’s African Food Map
The genesis of the idea was simple and uncomplicated. I was looking for a recipe online
The left winger
A meditation on left footed footballers, especially wingers, given the conventional wisdom that lefties are always useful to have in a match.
A Senegalese Citizen
Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
Weekend Music Break, N°43
It’s been far too long since we had a music break. So without too many words,
Luanda Can Cook
In a rapidly changing city like Luanda, it is important to be able to catalogue all of its eating establishment, or at least those that our wallets and stomachs allow.
The Poo Fighters
Townships and informal settlements are not dump grounds but living breathing communities where the residents are tired of being treated like shit.
Our colonial torturers
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
The flag-bearers of dub in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past
Your truths are self-evident. Ours are a mystery
In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called “the African non-archive.”
On New African Writing
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
Black History in Amsterdam
Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands’ commercial capital.
The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
Meeting Sembène
An Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, director of films like ‘La Vie Sur Terre,’ ‘Rostov-Luanda,’ ‘Waiting for Happiness’ and ‘Bamako.’
Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a “Pro Twerk Team” may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
The battle over the 27th of May in Angola
Why the ruling MPLA wants to control how we remember the murder of dissidents killed right after independence.
Germany’s African “Big Five”
Germany’s a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
The new and improved Africa is a Country is here
After weeks of promising you a new design, we’re back with a brand-new and improved blog. This is a big day for us.
Africa is a Country is getting a makeover
We’re updating our design and will be back soon with a fresh new look. Stay tuned.
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s new film “Grigris” and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir, among others.