Africa is a Radio: Episode #13
…Diaspora, with special shout outs to the South African student protesters, and young Afrobeats artists in
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A Cartographic Narrative
Visualizing the 1760-1761 Slave Revolt in Jamaica, the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.
Books of 2015
A small corrective to the tide of Big Media book lists that champion a small and predictable group of authors who together give at best a limited Eurocentric view of our world.
Love, race and history in Ghana
Historian Carina Ray on her book that explores the history of interracial intimacy in the Gold Coast and Ghana.
All you need to know about Uganda’s elections
Here's what to read and who to follow on social media if you want to make sense of Ugandan politics now.
The art of Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Beauty, stillness, and connection in Lagos, Nigeria.
Weekend Music Break No.93
Welcome back to our Music Break, after it took a bit of a break itself. Enjoy
Africa is a Radio: Episode #16
Africa is a Radio is back for April with both classic and contemporary sounds out of
Shadow and Axed
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
Monochrome Lagos
What would an alternative visual vocabulary through which to comprehend Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, look like?
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
Are you an African artist?
Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?
Weekend Music Break No.97
…and ending up around the rest of the African diaspora. Check it all out via the
Africa is a Radio: Episode #17
…and its surrounding environs. Along with that, we do the usual visit to the African continent
What next for Zimbabwe?
…the viral #ThisFlag video that kickstarted the protests in Zimbabwe and its diaspora), is possibly in
Uptown griots
Malians started arriving in New York City in the 1980s, numbering about 8,000 now. They also brought their music.
What Kenya means to Barack Obama
Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, his personal links to Kenya have been weaponized by the U.S.'s Right’s as a slur. But there's more to his relationship with his father's country.
Not standing on the sidelines anymore
A number of recently made, small budget films are doing the festival rounds. They give great insight into African women as actors, characters and filmmakers.
Don’t call me Toubab
"White person!," people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan."
The Nigerians are coming
Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.