Azonto Germany
The diverse histories and orientations of African pop, the diaspora, and its international dissemination and the speed with which culture travels now.
Search Result(s) for: “Diaspora”
Who owns Afrobeats?
Does Afrobeats come from the continent or the diaspora. This reviewer of a new book on the genre's history and rapid takeover of our airwaves and playlists, argues we need to center Africa more.
Songs for the Atlas Lions of Morocco
What music do young Moroccans listen to at home and in the diaspora right now?
In praise of disruption
A conversation with the founding editor of Bakwa Magazine — created to amplify new writing from Cameroon and from the African diaspora.
We are the remains
This is Number 11 in my occasional series of posts highlighting the music of my hometown, Paris, also a center of Europe's African diaspora.
Afropolitan Divas
Numbi, a gathering space for the Somali diaspora artists in the UK, expands its focus to include poetry and music from elsewhere in East Africa and elsewhere at a showcase in East London.
A primeira diaspora africana
O sucesso de Cabo Verde no campeonato africano das nações suspendeu temporariamente o debate sobre a identidade do povo.
Al Jazeera Goes French
Al Jazeera is planning a French language version of its news network. That means, government funded France 24 will be in direct competition with it for viewership in Africa and amongst the continent's French speaking diaspora.
Liz Johnson-Artur’s Archive
The Ghanaian-Russian photographer documents the African diaspora in Europe, mostly in the United Kingdom.
Bamako-sur-Seine
A sense of how the Malian diaspora experiences the political tensions and instability back home.
Afropolitans and the fantasy of a digital nation
Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora — but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.
Summer in the City
Weekend Music Break 49 makes stops in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and with the diaspora in Australia, among others.
Encountering the promised land
The story of the Rastafari community who moved to their promised land of Ethiopia on land granted by Haile Selassie in the late 1950s as thanks for diaspora's support during the Italian occupation.
Interrupting Paris Fashion Week
A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?
Don’t kill yourself because of suffering
Weekend Music Break, No.104 is just a playlist of ten great songs accompanied by predictably striking visuals from across Africa and its diaspora.
Pitch Perfect Friday
Africa is not just represented by five nations in the World Cup. Its diaspora is also here courtesy of Euro-American and South American squads.
Reading List: Xavier Livermon
Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.
From Mogadishu to Toronto
The novel The Youth of God offers fresh perspectives on Somali assimilation and struggle in Canada's largest city.
The pitfalls of return
While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?