Zombie statistics and poverty porn
Two sides of the same e-waste documentary.
Culture
Voice of the Cape
Rapper YoungstaCPT's headspace is shaped by Cape Town’s history.
Bridging visual distance
The photo series Another Way Home captures how migration effects families, communities and individuals—those who travel and those who stay behind.
The politics of ethical deception
If in India there has been an investment in myth of Mohandas Gandhi as a non-racial icon, in South Africa Gandhi also has his defenders.
God don kam
Rapper Jovi has inducted himself into a club of Cameroonian artists who have embraced their own truths in the face of adversity.
The marginalization of African runners
The international body governing track and field announced that the longest distance race to be held will be the 3000 meters. We know who will benefit least from this change.
Back to class
The emphasis on identity and difference act to temper the radical potential of South Africa's youth. They need an education on class politics.
Why I’m no longer talking to Nigerians about race.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
Instant Films
The late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety once said his films are not based on premeditation or planning.
Sex, lies and Lagos
Everyday Lagos and Lagosians fill the pages of Leye Adenle's thrillers, but fail to fill some holes in the plots.
The new South African stoner comedy
The new comedy 'Matwetwe' hits all the right chords to tell a story about the current place and time of South African youth.
Two people ‘cured’ of HIV. But we don’t have a cure for HIV.
News of a potential cure for HIV shouldn't lead us to complacency. There are 37m people in the world with HIV, nearly half who can't access treatment.
Senegal’s fear of outspoken women
Religious authorities in Senegal are organizing protests against a popular TV series. The outrage could be related to the challenges the series provokes of the "proper" place of women in society.
A meditation on home
A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.
The great Somali apologia
Every time you project terror onto Somalis, remember to ask how we live in Mogadishu.
Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."
Longing for freedom in Morocco
A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.
The geo-politics of Malcolm X
Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.
Yacht rock or slave ship rock?
Once we're done talking about its viral quality, is Toto's "Africa" a song about the continent with the same name, or a song about how millions of enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?