LagosPhoto is Five Years Old
…World Press. This year there were 10 or 11, last year there were maybe 8. Then
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#MyDressMyChoice
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
Between polarization and transition
Brazil, under the Workers' Party, even if it’s still struggling with enormous poverty and social inequality, has managed to improve tremendously.
The Books of 2014
…their ancestry back to slaves transported from South and South East Asia by the Dutch East
Dutch elites and blackface
Most elites in the Netherlands are no different than racists when it comes to defending #ZwartePiet.
Many Terence Rangers
If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.
Invisible labor in plain sight
South Africa has 52 million people. Around 1.1 million are domestic workers. 54,000 of those are under the age of fifteen.
Stirring the Spirits of the Dead Miners of Marikana
When the widows of Marikana tried to wake up their husbands from their graves by yelling at them.
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.
New Muslim Youth Culture
Hisham Aidi’s book ‘Rebel Music' remixes race, faith, and geography
The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
The Venice Biennale and the problem of nationalism
Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World's Futures” is a radical attempt at shifting the paradigms of biennale models to create a more democratic society of artists and exhibition spaces.
Why am I insulted when people mistake me for a samba dancer?
…that Brazil is seemingly oblivious to this reality. Friends from the world over, France, South Africa,
Punished for being African
In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.
What’s the word? Sister/woman have you heard from Manenberg?
…Manenberg, Rock Girls was begun in 2010 by human rights lawyer and activist Michelle India Baird,
Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
Cameras and the Indian Ocean
…enthusiasts and collectors of photographs, part of a fervor that swept the Indian Ocean’s urban enclaves.
For Love of God
In the work of the novelist, Okey Ndibe, the influences of the United States, especially that everything is available for a price, is everywhere in Nigeria.
Humans of Lagos
Offering a glimpse at daily life in the West African mega city.
Memory, between nostalgia and archive
The relevance of Mauritius in the flows and exchanges between global superpowers, especially Britain and the United States.