Africa is a Country teams up with Coffebeans Routes to present a Cape Town concert series.
This month we will be kicking off a special partnership with Coffeebeans Routes to bring you a
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When Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment
In 1967, West Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment. In September of that year, socialist students
Lucky Bastard
Osekre, whose music is a blend of Afrobeat and ska, on the trials and tribulations of being an African musician in New York City
In the time of xenophobia
The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.
Angolan Cinemas: Past and Present Tense
Cultural spaces and historic patrimony have not fared well during Angola's post-war reconstruction and development.
Why am I insulted when people mistake me for a samba dancer?
Let me give you some snippets of what it is like to be black in Brazil: A
Political Violence: The cloud looming over Lesotho
Last week in Lesotho, opposition leaders Tom Thabane and Thesele ‘Maseribane fled to Botswana and South
Kassav, and Jozi’s love for zouk
Kassav are a band formed in Paris in ’79. They were in Johannesburg recently, where they
The Venice Biennale and the problem of nationalism
Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World's Futures” is a radical attempt at shifting the paradigms of biennale models to create a more democratic society of artists and exhibition spaces.
The Adventures Of Uno July
South African hip hop audiences blatantly ignore Ill Skillz’ craft because they're from Cape Town.
The Chronic Sketches “A New Cartography”
The latest issue of the Chronic, a quarterly gazette offshoot of the “project-based mutable object” that
The limits of debunking only the pseudoscience of race
What a very white book launch in a very black neighborhood in downtown Johannesburg reveals.