6431 Article(s) by:
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Die Antwoord play the media game well. What they still do badly is “borrowing” from other people’s work.
Congolese artists Konono N°1 and Baloji collaborated by merging “traditional” sounds from Africa’s biggest country with hip hop.
The challenge of creating anti-commercial rap in Angola: a market with bling, swag and surly sisters.
Aava DuVernay leads a movement to organize African-American film festivals and secure theatrical releases for black independent films.
Dubai can actually be a city of gems that might surprise you. Like soul musician Hamdan Al-Abri, who is of Zanzibari descent.
Number 8 in our series, Paris Is a Continent, showcasing the music of the French capital, is about bragging rights and one song.
Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.
Just a sample: A “Heart of Darkness”-themed ship, Tarzan in South Africa and a travelogue on the Congo River.
We have a new @Africasacountry Twitter account. Follow us there and on Facebook too.
The talk show host started a private school for girls in South Africa. Shocker: it mostly makes things worse.
Thandi Newton choice as a female lead in the screen adaptation of “Half of a Yellow Sun” has some people upset.
What countries do footballers playing in Europe’s top five leagues come from? That’s not such a straightforward question and answer.
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji’s work does engage with her personal history of Indians’ expulsion from Uganda.
Afrobeats is broadly what most people think when they try to define black music in the UK. But it is hard to pin down.
There needs to be another solution than free market capitalism globally to promote artistic creativity. The experience from Sierra Leone is not encouraging.
The politics of lists like the “Top Thirty Think Tanks in sub-Saharan Africa.”
A Mexican research group has listed the world’s most dangerous cities based on homicide rates. South Africa’s cities finish tops.
“Afro-Spectacle,” a music and film event by DJ collective, Dutty Artz, explores the working class African immigrant experiences in the city.
The clear signs of African influence on the Arabian Peninsula and the cultural fluidity that exists throughout the Indian Ocean.