Literary Sudans
The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.
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First Thoughts on Mali’s Second Coup
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.
Always searching
Abdullah Ibrahim was difficult, suspicious, and brilliant. And beneath all of it, he was searching for home.
Kuduro’s International Wave
If Os Kuduristas is problematic, there’s no one to blame for its existence but perhaps us, the international community and the media.
Songs for the Blue Sharks of Capo Verde
The first in our Africa Nations Cup 2013 playlists; to drown out the commentator if they are annoying you during the game.
The Blue Sharks in Mandela Bay
What we learned from Day 8 of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.
To sanitize and trivialize a decade of mayhem
Another book argues Zimbabwe's land reform is a success. But does it adequately deal with the processes by which that “success” was achieved?
The immediacy of photography
The first in a series of interviews by Roxsanne Dyssell, a South African writer based in New York City. First: Photographer and photoblogger, Karabo Maine.
How to text someone you love
An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.
Whose Commemoration
The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.
Living up to its Pan-African dimensions
Filmmakers Newton Aduaka and Haile Gerima and film critic and scholar, Mbye Cham, assess Fespaco 2013.
Afrique 3.0, Version 2.0
The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: "Afrique 3.0." We had a closer look. Is it any good?
Joyce Banda has bigger problems than Madonna
After years of being frozen out by Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration, President Joyce Banda has restored the IMF to the top table of Malawian policy-making and pushed through a sweeping reforms at their behest.
Aristide Zolberg and African Studies
A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.
An African inspired fantasy world
Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.
Black History in Amsterdam
Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.