The indelible mark of the mbira
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.
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Gay Shame in Johannesburg
The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.
French-Algerian sculptor Rachid Khimoune exhibits in New York City
…his father lost his job at the local mine and the family moved to the suburbs
All the immigrants’ crimes in Italy
The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society
Cape Town needs a visit from Anthony Bourdain
Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.
Sinophobia
Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.
There is more to my life than making photographs
In our series of interviews with young artists and creatives continue: This week's guest: photographer and blogger, Nana Kofi Acquah.
The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
The Blood of the Impure
The French national anthem is a pretty nasty song. It dreams, in one of its more memorable verses, that the “blood of the impure” will “irrigate our fields.”
The Dutch Media Drama
Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a "problem"?
Where the thing in her head translated well
An interview with the filmmaker Dehanza Rogers, about the film "Sweet, Sweet Country," a fictional film capturing the harsh personal choices of Africans in Clarkson, a town in Georgia known for its large immigrant population.
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's new film "Grigris" and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, among others.
A Senegalese Citizen
Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
Benefit Packages
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms.
Restaging the Death of Patrice Lumumba
The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Zimbabwean Diaspora Diaries
The UK is jokingly referred to as Harare North for its sizable Zimbabwean diaspora, second only to South Africa. This photo essay captures that world.
What the Italian press said about Lampedusa
…has prosecuted fishermen in the past, accusing them of ‘facilitating illegal immigration’ as Lampedusa’s mayor pointed
Why didn’t the New York Times publish the exposé they commissioned of virulent racism against Africans in Israel?
…immigration minister: “This country belongs to us, to the white man.” Last summer Miri Regev, an
Silicon Valley’s awkward relationship with “Africa”
There is a huge disconnect between Americans working in Africa, and Africans working in America – though they are often in the same building.
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.