The Western Imagination of Morocco
Why at this late hour would The New York Times want to recycle Paul Bowles’ racist fantasies of Morocco?
Culture
The Wizard of Zimbabwe
What do you when your 70 year old South African father wants to meet Robert Mugabe for his birthday. Make a film about it.
Romance and the average Yoruba girl
Are quirky white people with thriving, trendy careers in New York City, the only ones to find love?
I hate Spur!
Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Hawa Essuman
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
The West are not those most affected by terrorism
Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film "Timbuktu" complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.
The Grammys are irrelevant
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.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jim Chuchu
The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.
Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country's post-socialist modernity through dance.
The Black Messiah
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.
Bogotá’s Music
Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.
Your concepts of African belonging
The El Foukr R'Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Newton Aduaka
For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.
The birth of Malawian hip hop
Bantu Khamuladzi are pioneers of Malawian hip hop. Like most first generation African hip hop artists, they mimicked American styles, then found their own voices.
The first feature film out of the DRC in over 28 years
Viva Riva! director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, on African self-representation, and opening a production company in "chaos."
The importance of cultural preservation
The multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.