
Rapping Against Impunity
A campaign in Senegal wants to put public pressure on the government to follow-though on criminal investigations in order to get justice for victims of violence and torture.

A campaign in Senegal wants to put public pressure on the government to follow-though on criminal investigations in order to get justice for victims of violence and torture.

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.
Here’s ten new videos to get your weekend started. Some pop, some rap, some indie, but

Filmmakers Newton Aduaka and Haile Gerima and film critic and scholar, Mbye Cham, assess Fespaco 2013.
British filmmaker Roy Agyemang’s documentary on Robert Mugabe, “Villain on Hero?”, intended to be a three-month

Madonna's attempt to save face after her scolding by Malawi's president to rehash the stereotype of the corrupt African leader rings hollow, and a bit desperate. Malawi's President wasn't having it.

Pierre Thiam, a Senegalese-born chef defining African restaurant food in the United States, argues that it is insulting to categorize African cuisine into one box.

The comedians Jon Stewart and Bassem Youssef and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

An interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia. Jean-Michel Basquiat is often cited as an influence in his work, but local experience is a bigger muse.

Cristina De Middel self-published book "The Afronauts," revisits the 1960s shortlived, abandoned project by Zambia's government to send the first African astronauts to Mars
Art Melody, the Burkina Faso-based gruff-voiced emcee who also completes the high-octane duo Waga3000, came to

Licínio Azevedo's "Virgin Margarida" is a critical look into Mozambique's past--its re-education camps.

Nairobi Half Life is a smart, take-no-prisoners action movie that makes us to wrestle with the neoliberal city.

For all its cinema glitz, Cannes is in a part of France associated with the far right and very anti-immigrant, so it is a treat to see the region is hosting an African themed film festival.

Chinua Achebe’s legacy is not fixed but rather about responding to change with energy and wit.
When Tendai Maraire broke down his Pungwe mixtape for us last year. I remember when Zimbabwe gained independence.

Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki: "If we don’t stand up for ourselves, no one else is going to do it."

For our series interviewing the new generation of African creatives, we sent questions to designer. Olalekan Jeyifous. We asked him for his five favorite designs.

The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: "Afrique 3.0." We had a closer look. Is it any good?

A short film of electronic based music across the Sahel region: Mauritania to Northern Nigeria and in-between.