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If Africa really is a country . . .
One of our readers took our title literally.

Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.

The talented Tajdin sisters
They're making a film about "a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black."



The new type of Senegalese
One of the key groups that engineered the ousting of Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade - he wanted to change the constitution to stay in power - was a youthful grassroots social movement group founded by a collective of rappers.

The Sudanese pioneer of African cinema
In 1969, Gadalla Gubara and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Timité Bassori and Mustapha Alassane came up with an idea: FESPACO.

Brand Kuduro
How a music genre is selling Angola's oil boom.

French Tropicalism
When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.