Pura Música
This is our Teca — basically introducting you to some of the coolest, hippest, most recent music from cities around Latin America.
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What are ’emerging voices’ and ’emerging countries’?
Why the author asked for his work to be withdrawn from a prestigious literary competition.
The Assassins of Memory
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
The Decade of People of African Descent
Ten films we can recommend at the 2015 New York African Film Festival. The theme coincides with that of the United Nations and highlights women filmmakers.
Burundi’s growing mess
How did Burundi go from being the hallmark of power-sharing success to an increasingly polarized country?
Whip it Good
The Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back.
Africa, in a state of constant self-discovery
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
The people smugglers
Smugglers are in most cases merely the “poor man’s” travel agent; a deregulated, brazen, relatively cheap and lucrative travel agency for refugees and people with no passports.
Baltimore Blues
Rather than spending money to fix massive inequalities, the U.S. funds militarizing the police, incarcerating black youth, and state violence.