My favorite photographs N°8: Sydelle Willow Smith
Among the most striking portraits in South African photographer and filmmaker Sydelle Willow Smith’s online portfolio
Among the most striking portraits in South African photographer and filmmaker Sydelle Willow Smith’s online portfolio
Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.
What's the story with The Very Best's video for the single "Kondaine," where they teamed up with an American NGO and shot it in very rural Kenya.
The limitations of working in the online space, given the small percentages of people with online access (despite the expansion of mobile technology).
Matheka, through his photographs, aims to instil in Kenyans, and eventually all Africans, pride in their cities and pride in their place within them.
How the death of a very talented Kenyan marathon runner points to structural problems in the country's national running industry.
Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.
The video, "African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes," made by an American NGO, is part of the "Brand Africa" discourse that's all the rage now.
Pulitzer awarded Gettleman $10,000 for "his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa."
Republican party propaganda wants to paint President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family as alien to America. In
I won’t bother to unpack this commercial, but this is exhibit A for the case against
They're making a film about "a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black."
Kenyan artist Rabbit is working hard to get the word out about his new album Orutu
My latest list of new African films or films with African topics. From now on I’ll
Mutombo, a former NBA star, seems in way over his head in a diamond scam. But some of the allegations cited in media reports don't add up.
An older Cabo Snoop tune (kuduristas in Angola and elsewhere have been dancing to ‘Zagala’ since
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to
What’s going on at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (GFATM)? It recently
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,