Sounds of wisdom
The Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar aims to show that music is much more than a collection of tunes.
Culture
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.”
Do we need another David Goldblatt show at a prominent museum?
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
An allegory for freedom
Blackness is an empty canvas upon which myths of savagery, barbarism, incivility, and unequivocal tragedy are
On the arrest and detention of Cameroonian writer and scholar, Patrice Nganang
The arrest of Patrice Nganang, Cameroonian writer and scholar, in Douala on Wednesday, December 6, 2017,
Reading Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born, African nationalist and champion for the liberation of Algeria, died on this day in 1961 in a hospital in
Empire and Ambivalence — Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Maya Jasanoff and Joseph Conrad
“Everything is repellant to me here. Men and things, but especially men”— Joseph Conrad, Letter to