Reconsidering France’s role in the Rwandan genocide
It is worth revisiting the context for the mass killings, how historians have studied it since and casting a revisionist eye.
Culture
Captain Kolisi
South Africa's national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history--24 years after the end of Apartheid.
This is Nigeria
A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz's take on Childish Gambino's viral "This Is America."
This is democracy, political hysteria
Why has Childish Gambino's "This is America" video resonated with so many people around the world?
Young, Latin & Black
Chief Boima and Francesca Harding on race and cultural difference in Latin America through the lens of trap music.
Mohamed Salah and the Egyptians
Sergio Ramos' injury to Mohamed Salah in the 2018 UEFA Champion's League final set him up for a world of insults from Egyptian football fans.
Revolutionary intellectuals
History will reward those thinkers whose ideals and actions remained aligned with the people.
How not to photograph Nigerian women
On The New York Times' tone-deaf photo-essays of a group of Nigerian women who managed to escape Boko Haram.
Wanlov The Kubolor and the spirit of forward thinking
More than a decade after his first hit, Wanlov the Kubolor remains a fiercely creative, independent and critical deconstructor of all things commercial.
This mother of mine
On Mother's Day — a dedication to hardscrabble mothers.
Senegalese cinema does not exist
Wolof-centered television may be a beacon of hope for Senegal’s waning cinema culture.
Neoliberalism’s children
There is very little self-made about Nigeria's young, rich and glamorous like oil magnate Paddy Adenuga and DJ Cuppy.
An overripe fruit will eventually fall off the tree
Artists played central roles in the protest movement that ended dictatorship in Burkina Faso.
One day we will find a language for this
New Warscapes volume explores travels and lives of migrants and refugees beyond mainstream portrayals.
Two places called Kongo
Francesca Harding joins Chief Boima for the fourth episode recorded in Los Angeles, California. Our guest is Angolan activist Mel Gamboa.
How business news shapes Africa’s image
A study of Reuters suggests news media is not a simple mirror to the world: News content is a crafted, cultural product.
‘Going out’ – China in African media
China is developing a media footprint in Africa, via providing digital TV services and a global news channel.
Hack, make, sell
How to change the erroneous perception of Africa as technology backwater. Go look, for example, at what the "Maker Movement" is doing in Ghana and Nigeria.
National Geographic’s mea culpa isn’t enough
A deeply colonial institution, with a shameful history, struggles to reinvent itself.
All the colors of jam
I had told many half-truths before, but those little lies were cute compared to this, the first time I told a big lie.