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Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Historian Greg Mann is not a big fan of Tuareg group, Tinariwen. The music is alright, he agrees, but the politics is rancid.
God is the fastest-growing business in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. It may be time we agitate for our governments to raise taxes on these corporations.
The city’s past and its predilections render neat formulations like Creole city and European city equally hollow.
This is Number 11 in my occasional series of posts highlighting the music of my hometown, Paris, also a center of Europe’s African diaspora.
The popular Kudurista, Titica, is one of the the top stars of this growing Angolan dance music form.
One of our readers took our title literally.
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.
They’re making a film about “a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black.”
One of the key groups that engineered the ousting of Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade – he wanted to change the constitution to stay in power – was a youthful grassroots social movement group founded by a collective of rappers.