Still doing the right thing
It is eerie (and tragic) how relevant the themes of racial tension and structural violence of Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing' still is--both in America and South Africa.
Culture
The Freetown Sound Edition
Blood Orange and Sampha are two London-raised artists with Sierra Leonean roots, currently making waves on both sides of the Atlantic.
Story of a South African Farm School
The Elsenburg Agricultural College lies 50 km east of Cape Town, tucked among the quiet valleys
Poetry as design
Collapsing the binaries hard-wired into the logic and narrative of “uber-gentrification;” the latter representing the conquest of science over art, technology over soul and innovation over old.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni's work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
The Edge of Wrong
The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.
Weekend Music Break No.97
Here’s another Music Break to soundtrack your weekend! This round up is the “other countries” edition with
The Uber driver and Muhammad Ali
When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you're not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.
Capturing Nigerian histories before they disappear
The Nsibidi Institute Memory Project attempts to use digital forums to preserve popular, everyday memories of Nigeria.
In Africa, there should be djembe drums
For the last three months, we have been working on the sound design of my first
Olu’s Omniverse from the African Future(s)
Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.
Are you an African artist?
Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?
Suburban Bliss
Is the new benchmark in South African cinema “Happiness Is A Four Letter Word"?
What is happening at the Durban International Film Festival?
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1.
Weekend Music Break No.96
Back to our regularly scheduled music break for your weekend! Sometimes we have to remind ourselves
If you love me, help me grow Ghana
It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead
Their voices, sharp and angry, shook me from my slumber. I didn’t know the language, but
Weekend Music Break No.95—Afro-Europe special!
Fresh of a trip to the UK and Germany, with stops in Afro-European strongholds of London
Monochrome Lagos
What would an alternative visual vocabulary through which to comprehend Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, look like?