Artifact Art Restitution and Western “Co-operation”
How can the Nigerian government be willing to lend treasured objects to an institution tha still keeps the shameful booty from colonialism's crimes?
Culture
Futuristic Folklore
Considering James Town's weighty history, which played a huge part in shaping Ghana, it seems only right that when re-imagining a future Accra we start at the place where the city began.
Visual Intimacy
Andrew Dosunmu's film "Mother of George" is a film about love and tradition set amongst Nigerian immigrants in New York City.
Weekend Music Break 54
Flex Boogie, featured on this song by producer/radio deejay The Prince, is a Pretoria-based hip-hop artist
The New Black Films
There is something to be said about the sheer volume of highly-anticipated films made by black filmmakers or about communities of color.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part Four
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Summer 2012.
Long Walk to Toronto
This boi pic of Nelson Mandela feels like it was picked at random from the Wikipedia version of Mandela's autobiography.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part Three
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Winter 2012.
Taking a Critical Look at Dominant White Beauty Ideals
Redmond is an Amsterdam-based intersectional feminist media collective, organizes conversation about beauty ideals, whiteness, race and cultural appropriation.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part Two
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Spring 2011.
Mobile Music
For young musicians in Mozambique, "a career in music is a pipe dream." The project, Wired for Sound, wants to change that.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part One
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Fall 2011.
Office Talk No.1
Black Thought, Boots Riley (of the Coup), Jeru da Damaja, Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and others
Weekend Music Break 53
If you don’t know now you know. Weekend soon come. We got music from South Africa,
African Radio’s growing and enduring popularity
Growing numbers of radio stations, across the continent, are training young people to deliver news to their peers themselves.
Dark Princess
If mainstream fashion showcases won’t open its doors to the “others” and black fashion showcases aren’t willing to show the breadth of silhouettes, then there is much more at stake than not having a dark-hued covergirl.
The Ship of Oblivion
Weekend Break Number 52 feature, among others, Buika, TV On The Radio, Alex Lomani, Ill Skillz, Tamikrest and Stromae.
5 New Films to Watch Out For, N°30
From the director and singer-actors of the 2005 film U-Carmen eKhayelitsha comes a new “opera” film.
Like a showbiz Muammar Gaddafi
The contradictions and tensions in pop legend Michael Jackson's relationship with the African continent.
South Africa’s new youth underground?
"We've got Ferraris in Africa. What they gon' say now?", says one of the young people in a new video. Is that the ethics of South Africa's young?