Bring the Beat Home
The documentary, “Soul Power,” captures a moment in African-American music during the 1970s: testing its boundaries in Kinshasa, Zaire.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
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.
Gay Shame in Johannesburg
The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.
Interrupting Paris Fashion Week
A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?
Chinua Achebe reflects on Biafra, but for whom?
Achebe’s “There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra” reopens old wounds about the civil war.
Kickstarter Must be Strong Stuff
When Deacon, a member of the band Animal Collective went to Mali to make an album and … to end slavery.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°20
This week Nigeria--yes the country whose history Rick Ross mangled in his latest music video (Ross
Township Life Has Never Looked So Glam
Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.
The Geopolitics of Hunger
Former UN envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World hunger: “We Let Them Starve.”
10 films to watch out for, N°5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQDPR5cR7o 'One Man's Show' is the latest film by Newton I. Aduaka (probably best known for
Africa is a Horse
What is it with the long practice in British racing of adding an African appellation to a race horse’s name. Most African countries now have at least one horse name after it.
The Danger of a Single TED Talk
Africa isn’t a brand and we find the clamor for “positive news” from Africa inane and condescending.
Nollywood–Nigeria’s Mirror
The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.
My favorite photographs N°8: Sydelle Willow Smith
Among the most striking portraits in South African photographer and filmmaker Sydelle Willow Smith's online portfolio
The musical journey of Bongeziwe Mabandla
Forty-two kilometres from Umthatha, the former capital of Transkei in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, is
10 African films to watch out for, N°4
Here are another 10 films we're hoping to see in the (near) future. First, three "fiction"
The cliché about ‘struggle photography’
Cedric Nunn’s photography reflects the complex emotions of his black South African subjects, their humanity, dignity, in very personal terms.