Exploring rootlessness and confusion
The director, Frances Bodomo, originally from Ghana, talks about her film "Boneshaker" and African globalization.
Culture
The elderly, the blind and people with albinism
In which category would the South African photographer Pieter Hugo place himself? What do they stand for or what his photographs can and cannot tell.
Film Review: “The Education of Auma Obama”
Republican party propaganda wants to paint President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family as alien to America. In
The 19th New York African Film Festival: “Relentless”
“Relentless” is fundamentally a film about Lagos. About how director Andy Okoarafor sees it. In Okoarafor’s
The best sports films have no play in them
Tunde Kelani's "Maami," a tale about a former professional footballer, is bold and stylish film-making, and it deserves a wide audience.
The 19th New York African Film Festival: ‘Playing Warriors’
It’s not hard to see why Rumbi Katedza’s first feature has been described as a Zimbabwean
The 19th New York African Film Festival: ‘How to steal 2 million’
In South African director Charlie Vundla’s “How to Steal 2 Million,” Johannesburg is equated with “a
Walking on water
From the Otelo Burning soundtrack (we still owe the soundtrack a review), here’s ‘Walk on Water’
The World of Congolese artist Pume Bylex
In the introduction to The World According to Bylex, Filip De Boeck and Koen Van Synghel
The Racial Politics of Tuareg Nationalism
Historian Greg Mann is not a big fan of Tuareg group, Tinariwen. The music is alright, he agrees, but the politics is rancid.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°6
Mali’s on our mind. Mostly because of the confusion. Reports from Bamako abound, while there’s still
Cape Town: Beautiful Ugly
The city's past and its predilections render neat formulations like Creole city and European city equally hollow.
We are the remains
This is Number 11 in my occasional series of posts highlighting the music of my hometown, Paris, also a center of Europe's African diaspora.
The Jacob Zuma Era
Coming on June 1 is Northwestern University journalist professor Doug Foster’s new book, After Mandela: The Struggle
Africa’s first trans music star
The popular Kudurista, Titica, is one of the the top stars of this growing Angolan dance music form.
If Africa really is a country …
One of our readers took our title literally.
Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.
The talented Tajdin sisters
They're making a film about "a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black."
The Sudanese pioneer of African cinema
In 1969, Gadalla Gubara and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Timité Bassori and Mustapha Alassane came up with an idea: FESPACO.
Brand Kuduro
How a music genre is selling Angola's oil boom.