Friday Bonus Music Break, N°9

• Tom Devriendt

Art and assassination in Angola

• Megan Eardley

A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola’s authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.

Exhibition. Cape Town in France

• Tom Devriendt

Not the Caine Prize

• Tom Devriendt

No room for ambiguity

• Dan Moshenberg

Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.

Documentary–‘I am Malawi’

• Tom Devriendt

Don’t Talk About Somebody’s Mama

• Gregory Mann

Malians have little patience for Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali’s former president, deposed in a coup on 22 March.

Tintin’s Day in a Belgian Court

• Jogchum Vrielink

Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.

The geo-branding war

• Mikko Kapanen

Sunday Bonus Music Break, N°8

• Tom Devriendt

David Cameron’s Libya Doctrine

• Orlando Reade

Britain’s secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.

The magazine as Tumblr

• Steffan Horowitz

Globetrotter’s organizing logic may be a bit elusive, but the content itself is often quite captivating.

Sierra Leone Independence Day

• Boima Tucker

The verdict on Charles Taylor

• Mats Utas

A comment on the enigmatic, and ambivalent, presence of rebel leader and former president, Charles Taylor, ten years after he left Liberia.

African Men

• Elliot Ross

The video, “African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes,” made by an American NGO, is part of the “Brand Africa” discourse that’s all the rage now.

The value of a people and their social structure

• Basia Cummings

Djibril Diop Mambéty’s film “Touki Bouki” is an excellent example of how the contemporary can be read through the (re)construction of myths and narratives from a collective memory.

An unusual sensitivity

• Orlando Reade

One of the striking facts of Nabil Ayouch’s film is that Israelis love the land and the Palestinians love it too.

Yinka Shonibare’s National Treasure

• Africa Is a Country

Guggenheim’s map–Where is the rest of Africa?

• Erin Haney
• Jennifer Bajorek

Shameless Self-Promotion: Chief Boima’s Many Identities

• Boima Tucker