'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.
Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.
Writing on depression in Africa is a rarity, so Binyavanga Wainaina's book, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," seems singular.
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
Tchobari duo shot the video for ‘Quem Mandou? (Me Nascer)’ in Catambor, Luanda “to show a
Matheka, through his photographs, aims to instil in Kenyans, and eventually all Africans, pride in their cities and pride in their place within them.
Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.
Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.
This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.
Plays, operas, children's events, participatory performances by audiences, and even some “open society” speeches lit up the Tunisian capital in defiance of religious extremists.
Pieter Hugo, the critically acclaimed South African photographer, has done an interview with Guernica (H/T Glenna Gordon) in which
What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?
10 songs we’ve been listening to this week. First up — and fresh — Gaël Faye
Between the relentless media coverage, the twitter deluge, the pronouncement by a South African judge (“This
A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.
For our series, "My favorite photographs," we asked Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann about her favorites.
Didier Drogba is the master of the unruly and the absurd: when he is in form, none of what the other team does matters.
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the
British based Nigerian rapper Modenine starts off our weekly Friday Music Break. Here’s four more.
Numbi, a gathering space for the Somali diaspora artists in the UK, expands its focus to include poetry and music from elsewhere in East Africa and elsewhere at a showcase in East London.