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Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."
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Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."

A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

The pick of summer 2012's shows and parties in New York City.

For our traveling readers , here are a list of Africa-related exhibitions and readings this summer taking place in a wide range of cities around the world.

A recent trip to Israel and the new sub-set work he produced there, raises some doubts about Kehinde Wiley's art practice.

The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.

Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.


Namibian filmmaker, Perivi John Katjavivi: The black voice in cinema occurs on the margins and is filtered, distorted, watered-down, negotiated, corrupted.


Yvonne Seon, later a college professor, thought Lumumba was a “decisive leader” that “cared deeply about his people."

The eleventh edition of African films we'd like to get on people's radars. We can't guarantee that these films will be available everywhere.

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."

The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.

Mali's interim Prime Minister is forced out by soldiers. What that means for Mali’s political future is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t look good.

If Os Kuduristas is problematic, there’s no one to blame for its existence but perhaps us, the international community and the media.