Everything happening to you is a wound
In a new film, five young Zulu women set off on a trek in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino poachers.
Culture
Archiving Addis Ababa
Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.
Back in the USSR
Forty years ago, in 1978, the exiled South African writer and leftist Alex LaGuma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it.
This is Congo
A long-awaited documentary takes a look at the state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and highlights those who are working to build a new future.
The Story of Kenyan photographer Priya Ramrakha
Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. A new book highlights his impact.
The Coming-Out of the African Same-Sex Novel
Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a closeted gay Nigerian comes out as we're witnessing a burgeoning African—and specifically Nigerian—literary attention to same-sex sexuality.
No Country for Yes Men
In his latest book, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ventures that colonial and neocolonial rule cannot survive without the work that prisons perform.
African poets get their own documentary
#Goals. The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of a new road movie documentary.
Algeria and the American Black Panther Party
In the 1970s, Algiers served as refuge to African Americans who confronted US racism with force and had to flee the country. Some Panthers hijacked planes.
David Goldblatt 1930-2018
The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.
Uganda—a culture that puts women at risk of great violence
A new film and how to change minds about who is at fault for Uganda’s endemic violence against women.
Soul Brother Krishna
Ishmael Reed explores the future of race in America in new work, focusing in on black-South Asian solidarities.
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?
How not to 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.