Africa’s First Lady
Winnie was everything Africans - and African women in particular - were not supposed to be.
Culture
Cape Town’s art fair
Art players and enthusiasts from around the world and down the street will coalesce at the
International Criminal Court politricks
Reigniting an important debate on the entanglements between the production of justice and the fragility of continental legal mechanisms.
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country
Peter Abrahams lived pan-Africanism (in South Africa, Britain and Jamaica) and remained brave enough to challenge those within it.
Weekend Music Break No.105 – Songs from banned countries: Somalia edition
For this weekend’s music break, we’ll have a second edition of “Songs from banned countries.” This
By the light of the arrivals gate
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
Weekend Music Break No.104 – Songs from banned countries: Sudan edition
We’re returning to the older format of Weekend Music Break (a series of embeds rather than
Crime in South Africa
Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country's cities.
Power against Power in Ghana
Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.
The Delasi Edition
This selection of smooth Afropop illustrates Delasi's transnational vision for contemporary African art and music.
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.
Winter In America Edition
Music Break Number 102 goes out to our American family, set to face four years of struggle against a new set of rulers.
Opening Angola’s past to public debate
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned, or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
MLK was a Pan-African
On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK's birthday with a public holiday. Africans should too.
The year of Elaine Salo
Elaine Salo, who died on August 13, 2016, had done the hard work of liberation and engaged head-on with the limits and promises of the new South Africa.
The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
The film 'Guangzhou Dream Factory" is a rich account of the complexities of living in China as an African migrant.
Africa makes us look better
For the author, the "us" are the thousands of Euro-American expatriates in Kenya, including herself.
Our Subjective List of The Best Books of 2016
We asked our editorial group, some contributors and friends to let us know what they would rate as their best hardcover they read this calendar year.
Weekend Music Break No.101
It’s the last music break of the year, and we leave 2016 with the 101st edition.
Inheritances of our fathers
History reminds us that the past is not something that can or should be left behind. Rather, we are morally obliged to keep reflecting on them.