Music Break

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Design Short

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Music Break

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Dictators and Pop Stars

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Allison Swank

A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.

'South Africa, 1965 to Now,' at MoMA

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Smiling Faces of Young Africans

• Kathryn Mathers

When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture’ any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.

Puppet History

• Tom Devriendt

Peter Muhumuza Tuke’s film “Kengere” – using puppets – tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda’s civil war.

Back Then

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country’s public (and popular) life.

Everybody take out your bicycles

• Africa Is a Country

An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.

Gay in Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Two photographers – unrelated – highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.

The View from Freetown

• Anni Lyngskaer

An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone’s capital.

Madagascar at the Oscars

• Allison Swank

A French filmmaker witnesses a “the turning of the dead people” ceremony in Madagascar. Amazingly, the film explores this event without necessarily exoticizing it.

The Murder of David Kato

• Africa Is a Country

This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu’s murder.

A’na Afriki

• Boima Tucker

The connections and shared lineage between Africa and the countries of the Arabian peninsula.

Luanda is Expensive

• Marissa Moorman

Those who pay the highest price for the high cost of living in the Angolan capital are not expatriates, but Angolans.

The Uprising

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.

Branding The New Black

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.

Found Object, No. 11

• Sean Henry Jacobs

I'm Gonna Dance

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Black Portrait Symposium

• Sean Henry Jacobs