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Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There’s no comeback when you bring race into it.
The issues faced by people of dual heritage who are torn between two different cultures and are confused about their identity.
“The Samaritans” explores the absurdities of the NGO world. The main characters work for “Aid for Aid,” a fictitious NGO that “does nothing.”
William Gumede, who wrote a book about the ANC, makes a strange and careless argument–without recourse to evidence–about the ruling party’s fortunes.
Saying that blackface is an American thing (everyone now uses this excuse) and therefore not a problem anywhere else, makes you look dumb.
Akomfrah’s films gives voice to the legacy of the African diaspora in Europe, and his experimental approach to narrative and structure helped pave the way for the re-emergence of the “essay film” today.
How a documentary about a radio station provides a window into aid policy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The documentary film. “Zoran and his African Tigers,” shows how harsh and unforgiving international football can be.
Muntu Vilakazi photographs the ‘Politics of Bling’ on Johannesburg’s East Rand.
The 54-storey building in Johannesburg, built in the 1970s, is the tallest residential building on the continent, and subject of a new photobook.
An Egyptian theater company puts on Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in colloquial Arabic. The choice was no error.
The continued relevance or irrelevance of a musical figure to an African audience doesn’t factor into that figure’s “rediscovery” outside the continent.