Whose Biennale is it anyway?
The theme for this year’s Venice Biennale, the ‘olympics of the art world’ is ‘Foreigners Everywhere.’ But beyond representation, what are the barriers to participation?
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Kemi Badenoch and the politics of assimilation
The UK Tory leader distances herself from Nigeria, embracing colonial narratives while rejecting solidarity with a nation grappling with neocolonial realities.
An island nation, everywhere
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home.
Manifest Destiny
It is through popular culture that the initial connections with homeland and diaspora will begin to make an impact on the consciousness of younger generations of Africans.
Turning the camera back home
The women filmmakers in the Ethiopian diaspora who have taken the risk of dedicating their lives to documenting their homeland.
Africa holds up a mirror to India
Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.
The Sierra Leone Show
Vickie Remoe has expanded Sierra Leone's presence on the web beyond the views of expatriates in the country.
Fifty Four Kingdoms
The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with "a pan-Africanist sensibility." They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.
From Mogadishu to Toronto
The novel The Youth of God offers fresh perspectives on Somali assimilation and struggle in Canada's largest city.
There is no one way to talk about migration
Beyond news headlines, African artists complicate common migration narratives.
Mama Africa
A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.
Eritrea’s deteriorating state
The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse.
A pivot towards Africa
The positive reactions of Africans to Morocco’s performance at the World Cup are not outliers. Sport has often challenged outsiders' view of Africa's regions as disparate and disconnected.
Africa is a Jockey
Will the breakthrough of a Swazi jockey in British horse racing change the global stakes for Africa and its diaspora's riders?
The Congolization Movement
Creating spaces where artists related to the Congolese diaspora can freely tell their side of the story.
Taking white privilege abroad
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
The Jews of Morocco
An interview with documentary photograpter, Aaron Elkaim, who explores the remains of Morocco's Jewish communities.
A certain Israeli psyche
Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
Race politics in Ghana
Historian Jemima Pierre argues that Whiteness serves as a reference point for Ghanaians’ notions of beauty, Blackness, and power, but Ghanaians remain blind to this.
“African cuisine” is a misnomer
Pierre Thiam, a Senegalese-born chef defining African restaurant food in the United States, argues that it is insulting to categorize African cuisine into one box.