Imagining the South African Indian
How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?
Culture
How to not photograph Nigerian women… again
On The New York Times' tone deaf essays portraying the Nigerian women who managed to escape Boko Haram's captivity.
One day we will find a language for this
New Warscapes volume explores travels and lives of migrants and refugees beyond mainstream portrayals.
How business news shapes Africa’s image
A study of Reuters suggests news media is not a simple mirror to the world: News content is a crafted, cultural product.
Sounds of wisdom
The Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar aims to show that music is much more than a collection of tunes.
The boundaries of how we think of the Global African Diaspora
New York's Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute seeks to “document and present the creative genius of African Diaspora cultures.”
David Goldblatt at the Centre Georges Pompidou
The South African photographer has a complicated place within his country's photographic culture.
Love and life on the flipside of Dar es Salaam
Two female leads in an African film not doing hair, casting ju-ju curses or throwing vases at cheating husbands.
Tanzania, Black Power, and the uncertain future of Pan-Africanism
Why did Tanzania and Julius Nyerere become touchstones for Pan Africanism in the 1960s and 1970s?
What kind of city is an African architecture for?
Despite a chronic housing and land shortage, Liberia's capital has not seen militant urban social movements.
More Congolese displaced than any other conflict and other Weekend Specials
Today, more Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas.
Keorapetse Kgositsile was a feminist
How Kgositsile ensured he never expressed himself like a white man.
The anti-orientalist
The legacy in Morocco of the influential Spanish-born novelist Juan Goytisolo, who died in mid-2017.
The art of community in Haiti’s Carnival
Hundreds of people wearing a colorful and vibrant display of elaborate masks depicting animals, women and
The making of a film empire
Short introductions are all the rage in scholarly publishing these days, and it’s easy to see
Postcards from Rwanda
The translator wouldn’t ask the question. We were sitting in the community meeting space of a
How to subvert the Hollywood Western
The new film, Five Fingers for Marseilles revolves around the tale of five black men, spanning their
This film was not made to be shown in Egypt
Last November an underground screening of the film The Nile Hotel Incident was shut down by
When Tiffany Haddish visited her father’s country, Eritrea
The comedian Tiffany Haddish has been hailed by Vanity Fair as “the funniest person alive right now”…
Two Salafi clerics visit London. It sparks debate on modernity and morality in Northern Nigeria
The innocuous photos of two Nigerian Islamic clerics in suits shopping and relaxing in London circulated in Northern