Cameras and the Indian Ocean
In 1883, the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash bin Said, commissioned a camera obscura room in the tower of
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
African films in Colombian cinemas
How would Colombian audiences react to films from Africa?
Loit Sols & Churchil Naude, live from Coffebeans Routes in Cape Town!
Here it is, your live stream of "If you can't see me, are you really there?" concert
Dance culture is as strong as ever
Here’s Hipsters Don’t Dance “Top World Carnival Tunes” for June 2015.
Issa Hayatou: MVP?
Is the Confederation of African Football’s president advancing the continent’s football or entangling it in geopolitics that could backfire and have lasting consequences?
I’ve always been a writer
Spoken word artist Taylor Steele, one of the participating artists of the New York based series, ‘Afropolitan presents’ – that takes place at Meridian23 at the end of June 2015 – talks about her craft.
Setting Liberia’s political pot onto a full boil
Takun J stirs the Liberian streets with calls for justice and accountability.
Stream Africa is a Country’s live concert partnership with Coffebeans Routes, this Thursday
As we announced earlier this month, Africa is a Country is teaming up with Coffeebeans Routes
Let Kenyan planes fly
The writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.
Gazing at a distance
Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western gaze, the other perpetuating it.
Wasila Tasi’u is fifteen years old and out of prison
In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi'u, was charged
Vamba Sherif’s ‘Bound to Secrecy’ is masterful storytelling
In 2012, The Economist Magazine’s style blog, Prospero, featured an essay titled “War and Peace in
Taking white privilege abroad
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
Weekend Music Break No.78
South Carolina and the island that Haitians and Dominicans share is on our minds this weekend, so
The stranger among you
How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?
Blood dripping from his head
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song “Lagos” – for our series “Liner Notes,” in which musicians talk about making music.
Buika is the best
Earlier this week I was at the launch of a friend's excellent book about music piracy.
The US nostalgia for racist regimes in Africa
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
A certain kind of Black
A meditation on Haiti and Charleston. Being Black, these days, means living in constant state of siege.
Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.