
Which Art History in Africa?
As an art writer working in Africa, I have no available model to craft an entire practice of writing books on contemporary art in Uganda.

As an art writer working in Africa, I have no available model to craft an entire practice of writing books on contemporary art in Uganda.

Rap artist, Dope Saint Jude, is a nightmare for anyone stuck in the gender/race void of simplified constructions of identity.

Hipsters Don't Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for February 2015.

Guibinga documents the vibrant beach culture of the country's capital, Libreville, on the West African coast.

The Congolese cites the crime film, 'Carlito's Way,' starring Al Paciono, as a project he wished he had made. You can see the inspiration in "Viva Riva," his breakout film.


The influence of people of African descent in the history of Peruvian music are overlooked. This documentary begins to set the record straight.

Cast members: "We want that film to enlighten our people’s situation, we, the real hostages of that crisis."

Chilean musicians argue that their feeling of isolation, combined with a higher than average internet penetration helped create and foster a local “scene" of musicians able to make a living from music.

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


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.