The two Africas
In the latest controversies about race and ancient Egypt, both the warring ‘North Africans as white’ and ‘black Africans as Afrocentrists’ camps find refuge in the empty-yet-powerful discourse of precolonial excellence.
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Breaking the chains of indifference
The significance of ending the ongoing war in Sudan cannot be overstated, and represents more than just an end to violence. It provides a critical moment for the international community to follow the lead of the Sudanese people.
A revolution in pain
A conversation with members of Sudan’s resistance committees and Magdi elGizouli.
A tragic kind of hope
Nigerian and South Sudanese filmmakers give voice to the search for identity, stability, and belonging through the lens of youth and migration.
Congo beyond the hashtags
While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism.
Heeding the call
At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.
Rooting for everybody black
The Olympics, with its provocative patriotism, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against hypernationalism.
From Cairo to Cornell
The Malcolm X effect of Gambian-British activist Momodou Taal.
The pitfalls of return
While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?
I have a problem with ‘Black Panther’
Anyone committed to an expansive concept of Pan-African liberation must regard 'Black Panther' as a counterrevolutionary film.
Archiving Addis Ababa
Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
Didier Drogba, Truth Commissioner
Cote d'Ivoire's newly-appointed commission counts 11 members, with footballer Didier Drogba one of them, representing the country's diaspora.
Africa’s first 21st century global pop star?
Nigerian D'Banj draws big crowds on the continent and regularly plays the diaspora circuit in cities like London. Next, pop stardom.
Azonto Germany
The diverse histories and orientations of African pop, the diaspora, and its international dissemination and the speed with which culture travels now.
Songs for the Atlas Lions of Morocco
What music do young Moroccans listen to at home and in the diaspora right now?