Culture
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.
Winter Reading List
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
Blackface Fish
Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?
This man is Afrikaans
On a visit to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, academic Herman Wasserman gets reminded of home and how people perceive him.
Three Books on Nelson Mandela
The American public radio network, NPR, asked me, in anticipation of Nelson Mandela's birthday, to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on his life and legacy.
My Favorite Photographs N°17: Thina Zibi
Thina Zibi demonstrates with her images the incredible innovation evident in contemporary South African design and style.
Summer Reading List
What are some Africa Is a Country editors and contributors reading during their northern hemisphere summer break?
Whose “new African writing”?
Finding more multilingual literary pathways will benefit all of African — and world — literatures.
An environmental calamity
The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.
Angola’s Biennale
It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.
Rick Ross is a Country
Rick Ross has since deleted a tweet about landing "in the beautiful country of Africa." He deserved all the scorn. He's been to three African countries already and should know.
A Senegalese Citizen
Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
Your truths are self-evident. Ours are a mystery
In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called "the African non-archive."
On New African Writing
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
Black History in Amsterdam
Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.
The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.