Blog
How a child deals with loss
For the first time, an Ethiopian film, "Lamb," was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. We interviewed director Yared Zeleke.
Black Magic Women
‘Black Magic Woman’, by Azizaa, from Ghana, is a feminist reclaiming of the sacred from Christianity.
Awesome Beat Tapes From Africa
The writer and musician Sabelo Mkhabela picks a selection of some beat tapes in his possession and writes about them for us.
What Serena Williams communicates on the tennis court
One key to black style is the fact that, relative to white Americans, black people don’t have much room “for make believe.”
The lions and the hunters
Lions and black people are not the same or even straightforwardly comparable. But it is true that something wants them both dead.
The politics of homophobia in Kenya
Why US President Barack Obama blundered by speaking out on LGBTQ rights in Kenya.
#Free15Angolans: An update
You’d never know it from reading the US media, but 15 political prisoners in Angola are still in jail.
Aliens in Lagos
The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'