
A Social History of the Gambia
An archive - stretching from 1820 to 1960 - of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.

An archive - stretching from 1820 to 1960 - of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.

In 2013 South African alterna-rockers, BLK JKS and The Brother Moves On, met in Paris to represent

The selective memory of 'Plot for Peace,' documentary film about South Africa's transition.

The #AlienEdits series seems to come as a form of resistance to negative social projections regarding race, gender, sexuality and culture.

A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.

Why at this late hour would The New York Times want to recycle Paul Bowles’ racist fantasies of Morocco?

What do you when your 70 year old South African father wants to meet Robert Mugabe for his birthday. Make a film about it.

Are quirky white people with thriving, trendy careers in New York City, the only ones to find love?

Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.

Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.

Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film "Timbuktu" complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.

Why are the Grammys so clueless about what is contemporary Latin pop music? They keep handing out awards to veterans like Ruben Blades or Vicente Fernández.
Last summer, I got the chance to visit the Origins Museum on the University of the

The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.

A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country's post-socialist modernity through dance.

John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.

Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.
This week I thought I’d try something a little different, inspired by some links I came

Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and

The El Foukr R'Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.