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Can an algorithm be racist?
Google translators limitations make for sometimes funny, sometimes dangerous results.
It’s just like Africa!
What if the author, a Dutch blogger, had the chance to edit an "Africa"-edition of a prominent European magazine.
Make Ignorance History
That old excuse of ‘We didn’t know’ (previously also heard as ‘Ons het nie geweet nie’ and ‘Wir haben es nicht gewuszt’) may be factually accurate, but it is never an ethical defense.
Bam bam riddim
Hipster's Don't Dance's 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for September 2014.
The People’s Girls
Egypt has a sexual harassment problem. Two young women decided to make a film about it.
Hip Hop Religion
While hip-hop can still connect us to our higher selves, its mainstream adaptations reveal that it is inherently human and not free from flaws.
The Italian Joseph Conrad
Alessandro Spina produced one of the greatest indictments against colonialism and jingoism, as well as a tribute to the Mediterranean’s cosmopolitanism.
The Afropeans are Coming
We asked the participants at a symposium in Austria on European Africans to reflect on what an Afropean is. We edited it into a short video.
Letter to Kenya
How much longer must we take everything with a pinch of salt or search for ways to laugh through the pain in our hearts? How much of our personal freedom and security do we have to sacrifice?
The Contemporary Mark of Assata Shakur
The Black American activist's relevance for today's generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
To Live and Die with Ebola in Liberia
The idea that this has been a crisis only of the country’s health care systems is wrong. This has also been a crisis of governance.
Necolonialism and Ebola
Why are affected West African states so spectacularly ill-prepared to deal with Ebola?
What is the matter with . . . TB Joshua
T.B. Joshua proffers a version of American tele-evangelism's empty promises to African masses, as nationalism and liberation politics lose their shine.
Unlike Anything I’ve Seen Before
The Sudanese film, "Beats of the Antonov," explores the connections between the bombs of oppression and the resilience of culture.
What Binyavanga thinks of the Caine Prize
The inaugural winner of the Caine Prize for short fiction opines on the useless rivalry between Kenyans and Nigerians about who has won more Caine Prizes.