
Africa is a Science Fiction Superpower
A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

Can North Africans define their own futures, away from the inventions of old white men in think tanks in Washington DC?

‘Dear Mandela’ questions whether the history of South Africa’s ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC’s power head on.

Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.

Writing on depression in Africa is a rarity, so Binyavanga Wainaina’s book, “One Day I Will Write About This Place,” seems singular.

American media should focus on the real political struggles in Zimbabwe and not think that the government of national unity has brought Zimbabwe out of a period of violent political conflict.


Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.

We asked the Africa Is a Country “office” to comment on Nando’s new ad that is supposedly a comment on the widespread antiblack xenophobia in South Africa.

The limitations of working in the online space, given the small percentages of people with online access (despite the expansion of mobile technology).

Matheka, through his photographs, aims to instil in Kenyans, and eventually all Africans, pride in their cities and pride in their place within them.

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

Denzel Washington’s new thriller, “Safe House,” plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can’t tell. That’s deliberate.


This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.

Plays, operas, children’s events, participatory performances by audiences, and even some “open society” speeches lit up the Tunisian capital in defiance of religious extremists.

Journalists rarely ask the IMF chief technocrat to consider whether or not she gives any kind of a shit about the people who are getting screwed by her “austerity” agenda.


What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?