10 Albums You Might Have Missed in 2012
Janka Nabay, Ben Zabo, Sinkane, Jagwa Music, Kanyi, Youssoupha, Kyle Shepherd, Ebo Taylor, Karantamba and Francis Bebey.
Culture
When the moving picture merges with the sonic beat
Our very biased selection of the top 10 music videos of 2012.
Styles and Genres
The best films of 2012 with African subjects as their focus: incredibly powerful and moving activist filmmaking that has documented the shifting politics of the continent.
Kuduro’s International Wave
If Os Kuduristas is problematic, there’s no one to blame for its existence but perhaps us, the international community and the media.
Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions
How anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media.
The Trouble with Aid with “The Trouble with Aid”
How the humanitarian movement grew in close relation to the democratization of moving image technologies.
‘Race jokes’ in South African ads
In South Africa, repackaging dated colonial fears about race and sex are used to sell beer and to win an advertising award for being "different."
Hip as Nationalist Project
Kuduru as an effort by politically connected Angolan elites to to package a fun and edgy dance born in Angola as soft power.
Redefining “Blackness”
An interview with Nigerian-American artist, Toyin Odutola.
God, too, takes the train to work
The author, also a photographer, on documenting South Africa's "train churches."
Jared Thorne’s Black Folks
A black photographer who moved to South Africa from the US, explores the transcontinental dialogue between black middle class people the world over.
This is not Pantsula
Sbujwa is a South African dance described as a dance that requires every muscle in your body to work in order to complete the moves.
Literary Sudans
The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.