5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Moussa Sene Absa
Moussa Sene Absa is a Senegalese filmmaker, artist and songwriter. What is your first film memory?
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Let’s talk about ethnicity and nationalism in Ethiopia
Politics in and about Ethiopia has become so heavily “ethnicized” that we have a difficult time distinguishing between ideology and identity.
Niçoise with sweet potatoes
Differences can be harmonious and allow people to come together despite their background and roots.
Angola’s Forgotten Massacre
Lara Pawson’s book about the complex and violent events on and after the 27th of May, 1977: the date of a supposed coup d’etat in Luanda, Angola.
A museum in the middle of the street
Three towering moko jumbies stroll up behind the stage, as if on cue, dressed in suits
Who profits from the production of blackface?
The Dutch state and its economy are profiting generously from their annual blackface partay.
Akon’s “giant Ebola air bubble”
That story about Akon, the Senegalese-American R&B singer, performing in an air bubble to thousands of screaming Congolese in Goma, because he doesn’t want to get Ebola is false
Kampala Gets an Art Biennale
The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.
The rebirth of a literary dream
The story of Ba re e ne re, now probably Lesotho’s premier literary festival as told by those involved from its start in tragic events.
Edition: Dakar
In June of 2014, My Africa Is decided to dive into Dakar, Senegal, a rarely talked
Get Well Soon, Ashoka
Today the American network NBC announced publicly that friend (and contributor) of Africa is a Country, Ashoka Mukpo, is
5 Questions for Filmmaker: Lodi Matsetela
As a filmmaker, Matsetela wants to be an alternative voice, in a topography that’s filled with stories by others, like Django Unchained, defining black people.
Practicing, Not Preaching
“The metaphysical properties of hip-hop, the metaphors, helped me imagine a better world.”
Brett Bailey, The Barbican and Black Britons
If “Exhibit B” truly offered the profound critique of slavery and colonialism its creators claimed, why the outrage? Why object to confronting silenced, gazing human “tableaux”?
What’s the matter with … Tim Noakes
This July it was announced that Tim Noakes,who rose to prominence as a respected sports scientist
The Upright Citizens of Burkina Faso
Burkinabe want to sweep out bad governance, political patronage, poverty, lack of respect for human rights and freedom of speech.
Transgender in Botswana
For a number of reasons, the LGBTQ community in Botswana experiences less severe social and institutional backlash than elsewhere in Africa.
The Fingo Revolution
How an an annual, independently-run series of events founded in 2011 in the Eastern Cape have propelled the genre in that South African province.
T.O. Molefe on South Africa’s “War on Women”
The essayist T.O. Molefe (he is a contributor here too) has a new op-ed column up at
Can an algorithm be racist?
Google translators limitations make for sometimes funny, sometimes dangerous results.