Neither anthem will do
Nigerians should reject both a song that conjures colonial memories and a tune that evokes years of military rule.
Nigerians should reject both a song that conjures colonial memories and a tune that evokes years of military rule.
Nigeria’s anthem change comes at a time when citizens need to interrogate Tinubu’s first year in office and ask critical questions about what democracy means to them.
How a Senegalese trade unionist inspired one of the continent’s greatest filmmakers.
At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.
The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.
Nigeria is so much more than its cultural and economic center.
In 'Revolutionaries’ House,' Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions.
By centering the African migrant perspective, a new film challenges Western images that cast hundreds of thousands of individuals into the generic role of desperation.
The CAF Champions League final and the politics of North-African football ultras.
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.
O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo.
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.
The film adaptation of Percival Everett's novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.
Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.