General Focus of Freetown
How is it like to be talented, have dreams and be young in Sierra Leone and what kinds of support exist to get you to the next level. Kelvin Doe’s story is a good case study.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Yannick Nyanga’s Tears
How a black French rugby player’s crying during the playing of the country’s national anthem was appropriated for all sorts of rightwing and reactionary politics.
French-Algerian sculptor Rachid Khimoune exhibits in New York City
Rachid Khimoune grew up in a small mining town in Northern France where his Algerian parents
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWwbE50GR6A This summer's Fuse ODG #ANTENNADANCE competition ("one person controlling the other using azonto movements") courtesy
It’s Africans’ turn to help Norwegians
A campaign by a Norwegian student group wants fundraising causes not be based on exploiting stereotypes. Also that aid be based on real needs, not “good” intentions.
Does it matter where an African film ends and begins
The eleventh edition of African films we’d like to get on people’s radars. We can’t guarantee that these films will be available everywhere.
Bono’s Big Ideas for Africa
Please, no more articles claiming to discuss African issues, but which are just rock stars turning up at US universities spouting nonsense.
Revolutions and Dancing
In Egypt earlier this year I was taken by my host to a nightclub in downtown
Kyle Shepherd X
The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.
Friday Music Break, N°24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnBiZmiRcM&w=560&h=315 Hello! Boima here, and I'm back helping out with the Friday music break. A Haitian
How to write about children in Africa
Children’s Radio Foundation’s shows are a testament to children’s capacity to be agents for change and to confront critical community issues themselves.
10 films to watch out for, N°10
Here's another random selection of ten films to watch (some of them already doing the rounds,
Stripping back the facade of modern hip-hop to reveal its African roots
Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces breaks down his ‘Pungwe’ mixtape for us.
Things you don’t know about African Women
Starting two years ago, the Thomson Reuters Foundation launched TrustLaw, “a global hub for free legal
#Elections2012
Americans vote today--or more to the point it is the "most important election in the world"
The political fight is wherever people gather
Can young Angolan activists inspired by Angola’s underground rap scene take on a political elite that has ruled for decades?
Hair politics over a church loop
In this Weekend Bonus Music Break, No.23, features musicians as diverse as Ghanaian-Swiss duo, OY, to familier sightings on Africa Is a Country: Spoek Mathambo and Sinkane.
Kehinde Wiley Goes To Paris
The American artist says he wants to tackle Françafrique; to turn it on its head. But in the process, he can’t help repeat stereotypes and artificial divisions.
My favorite things from the last six months
Art South Africa me asked to pick my “Best Six;” basically my “favorite (six) things from the last six months.”
A voice that is incessantly in exile
South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin’s life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.