The legacy of the first genocide of the 20th century
The mass murder of Nama and Herero by German colonists is now the subject of a documentary by the South African director, Vincent Moloi.
Culture
Mother in law
In the film, "Maman Colonelle," a Congolese policewoman takes on ghosts of the past.
The African Who Wanted to Fly
When he was fifteen, the Gabonese Luc Bendza embarked on his life journey to China to
It wasn’t cricket
The systemic challenges faced by black South Africans in even getting onto the field to play cricket in the first place.
Blaxploitation, Italian style
The stories of the Afro-Italian, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean actors and crews who helped shape Italy's film industry.
Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle
The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
A different kind of girl power
In recent years there has been a global convergence on the “girling of development”; in other
Weekend Music Break No.108
This time no theme, just another Music Break for your weekend! Weekend Music Break No.108 1)
Rosa Parks doesn’t live here anymore
The decision to relocate Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks's home from Detroit to Berlin, Germany, is another case of white savior complex.
Green White Green is a love letter to Nigeria’s youth
The film depicts the mutually transformative friendship of three “ethnically different” Nigerian young men in break with their elders' attitudes.
The problem of white supremacy is not rocket science
I was losing my temper. I was sitting in the cinema in central London watching LA
Thinking aloud with Stuart Hall
The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent.
Senegalese struggles play out on screen
The 24th edition of the New York African Film Festival put Senegal in the spotlight, featuring five short films from there.
Finding humor in Egypt’s tragedy
The rise and fall of television satire reflects the tragedy and disillusionment of the post-Morsi era.
Karel Schoeman, discovering the completed journey
The famous last paragraph of Karel Schoeman’s Another Country reads: Once, when he had just arrived
Algerian history as graphic novel
The story of Algeria's brilliant, and heroic, footballers who played for independence.
Weekend Music Break No.107 – French presidential election edition
Paris, even though I’ve never lived there, has perhaps been more important in my formation as a
The Archive of Malian Photography
Preserving the photographs of five Malian photographers - including Mamadou Cissé and Malick Sidibé - online.
The Indian-African alliance
Little attention is given to how Indians are viewed and treated not only on the African continent, but by peoples of African descent across the world.
How France will eat itself
Police brutality mediates the relationship between French citizens of African descent and public and political institutions.