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."
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Do we really need new street names?
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid's last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
President Obiang and the Samba School
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.
Should the African Union Run a Country?
The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.
A Postmodern Bricolage
What we learn from the film “Concerning Violence,” about Franz Fanon’s writings and ideas
Photo of the Day: What value do we place on African lives?
…risk their lives so that I could be free, there was nothing I could do for
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
To Africa’s Health
Will the new African Centers for Disease Control really be an African CDC?
Weekend Music Break No.72
…remix to celebrate the occasion: DJ Simón de la Onda sent over a couple videos from
What would a Hillary Clinton win mean for Africa?
Ever more extraction and exploitation, nicely packaged in the optimistic promise of sustainability, ‘good business climates’, partnership, democracy and ‘change’.
Weekend Music Break No.76
…Champion’s League Final with the Eto’o Coupe Decale dance; P-Square and Awilo Longomba’s new “Enemy Solo”;
Weekend Music Break No.77
…artists Badi and Fredy Massamba’s team up “Belgicain”; Show Dem Camp puts out an Afro-House song
The Roots of Africa’s Present Condition
…Angola and Guinea Bissau. The Review wanted to interrogate these revolutionary projects as part of the
The militant philosopher of Third World liberation
…an ‘inextricable network of sterile contradictions.’ He then stresses the need, though now delayed, to ‘besiege
Nigeria’s economy is blinking and shaking
Nigeria is Africa's largest democracy and largest economy. It also dominates this issue of #WeekendSpecials.
What Would Julius Nyerere Do?
Recent and current leaders in Tanzania like to be compared to Mwalimu Nyerere. Take current president, John Magufuli. He has been working hard to claim Nyerere’s mantle.
‘This is Lara Pawson reporting for the BBC …’
…in Angola for over two years, and have since travelled there for months on end, I
MLK was a Pan-African
On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK's birthday with a public holiday. Africans should too.
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)
African inequality rising
Every country in Africa is today less equal than it was in 2010; for the African masses the trickle-down benefits of economic growth have been relatively small.