
Upsetting color and its representations
What is one particular place when represented photographically?

What is one particular place when represented photographically?

Director Taiwo Egunjobi disavows Nollywood’s penchant for crass comedies and maudlin dramas.

Trevor Madondo achieved a certain immortality in Zimbabwean cricketing lore precisely for the way in which he confronted cricket’s history as an instrument of empire.

Dieudo Hamadi’s film 'Downstream to Kinshasa' is a powerful antidote to the DRC's collective amnesia around the Six-Day War and its aftermath.

The performative documentary 'Sun of the Soil' restores the historical record of the 'great king' of Mali, Mansa Musa.

How economic disparities, inequities, and opportunities occur side by side in Lesotho.

Tracing the music, from 1978 to the 2000s, that defined the rule of former Kenyan president Daniel Torotich Arap Moi.

Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.

The new film about Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella is one dimensional. It should not distract from Marighella's legacy.

Nigeria’s 2021 submission to the Oscars probes the psychology and propaganda of militant jihadism through the eyes of two sisters.


Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?

The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.

Prince Louis Rwagasore, also known as “Burundi’s Lumumba," has been reduced to a political tool by the country's elite, but artists are doing his legacy justice.

During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?

On this month's AIAC Radio we take a visit to Djibouti and explore music cultures around the Indian Ocean that resulted from a long history of Asian and African exchange. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.

The painter Cassi Namoda situates herself squarely in the artistic history of Mozambique, especially its rich tradition of anticolonial photography, as she turns outwards to the world.

The violence of keeping Ethiopian manuscripts in Western institutions.

Re-visiting Nairobi's urban history offers a glimpse into the forces that shaped modern life.

Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.