A way out of this miasma
A film about four African artists in Toronto, challenges stereotypes about Africans in Canada's media capital.
500 Search Result(s) for: “Diaspora”
Winter Reading List
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
Boogie Down Nima in the Bronx
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
The Afropolitan Must Go
Is it a good idea to separate African urbanites from the rest of their cohort? How is that even constructive, wonders the writer of Norwegian and Tanzanian descent.
Instagramming Africa
An interview with Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, founders of the Instagram project, Everyday Africa.
To discover Stuart Hall
Hall was a skilled storyteller, who placed his memory, his deep sense of alienation, and his autobiography at the heart of his theory and politics.
The State Of African Hip Hop
Hip-hop in Africa is diverse—no single sound defines it. Electro-chaabi, mbalax-influenced rap, and house-sampling styles all reflect the continent’s broad musical scope.
The African presence in Western Art
Interview with curators Sylviane Diouf (Schomburg Center) and Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum) about the African presence in Western and Asian art.
Let’s talk about ethnicity and nationalism in Ethiopia
Politics in and about Ethiopia has become so heavily “ethnicized” that we have a difficult time distinguishing between ideology and identity.
African Hip Hop
…diaspora. Many of these talents are featured on African Hip Hop, the focus of this week’s
The Queering Slavery Working Group
This tumblr focuses on reading, researching, and writing histories of intimacy, sex, and sexuality during Atlantic slave period.
Ivorian designer Loza Maléombho’s #AlienEdits selfie series
The #AlienEdits series seems to come as a form of resistance to negative social projections regarding race, gender, sexuality and culture.
The worst habits of American journalism
An open letter addressed to Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of the American TV news program, 60 Minutes, over its reporting of Africa and Africans.
Fresh Eyes: Amaal Said’s portraits of belonging
…created space in the digital landscape to offer humanizing photographs and poems of people in her
Cameras and the Indian Ocean
…the sons of myriad diasporas, created portraits befitting their subjects. One commenter tied the extravagance evident
From Lisbon to Lagos
It's the end of the year, so Hipsters Dont Dance made a "Top World Carnival Collabs" of 2015.
The vote of Kwaku, the Ghanaian plumber in the Bronx
Africans are a fast-growing segment of the black immigrant population in the U.S, but there are few attempt to court them as voters.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
How to cover Eritrea
…culture. Let alone with random international journalists, even among family members between home and the diaspora,
All your faves are problematic
A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.