President of France, King of Africa?
Francois Hollande want French-African relations to be transparent. Is this a new African policy or the old FrançAfrique?
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
What joy sounds like in German
Bonus music break: Abdullah Ibrahim, John Tchicai, Gato Barbieri, Barre Phillips and Makaya Ntshoko performing live on German public television in 1968.
Kenya’s #purplezebra Spring
Political springs, as in social movements that topple and/or transform political regimes, occur when the youth
There are more cell phones in Africa than India
For Canada’s Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
10 African films to watch out for, N°7
I was surprised to find very few films by African directors in this year's programme of
#Kony2005
The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda’s military.
Germany’s Turn
What to make of Germany’s newest arts funding program for the African continent, TURN, a 2 million Euro art and culture initiative that will last till 2015.
Our love is hot for Tiwa Savage
The music video for Tiwa Savage’s “Ife wa Gbona” is as engrossing as the song. With its blend of pop, juju and highlife It bring up warm feelings in the listener.
If dolls never die, neither does their past
The artist Gérard Quenum’s work suggest that society’s collective bad parenting and maltreatment cannot ever, completely ransack the spirit.
Legson Kayira, the first Malawian novelist, has died
Malawi had three first novelists: David Rubadiri, Aubrey Kachingwe, and Legson Kayira, who has died this
‘Syn City’ Harare
Zimbabwe is a paradox. A country riddled with contradictions. While the often unpalatable and sometimes hair-raising
Africa is a Jockey
Will the breakthrough of a Swazi jockey in British horse racing change the global stakes for Africa and its diaspora’s riders?
Tintingate
Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children’s literature.
Race, Entitlement and Gay Pride in South Africa
In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa – where political and economic power are at odds – what happens in gay spaces?
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°21
http://youtu.be/i1z5W_FZxtA Nigerian-Swedish pop star Dr Alban features in this new St. John's Dance video above. Swedish-Finnish-Gambian
Bring the Beat Home
The documentary, “Soul Power,” captures a moment in African-American music during the 1970s: testing its boundaries in Kinshasa, Zaire.
Soukous for Kabila
Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.
The indelible mark of the mbira
The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.
Are there enough African films
This new batch of films are set in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sudan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius.
When W Magazine Went to Johannesburg
They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.