Losing London
Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.
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A Room Adrift in London
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
Zambian skull (plus Zambian guide) in a London art gallery
The Thai-born artist, Pratchaya Phinthong, mines Zambia's colonial history to explore how historical narratives are performed through objects.
London calling … to the faraway towns of Somalia
…was. This past weekend, a Very Important Conference was held in London, at Lancaster House, to
“Congo Dialogues.” Alice Seeley Harris and Sammy Baloji on exhibit in London
The London gallery Autograph ABP is currently exhibiting Alice Seeley Harris’ well-known 1904 Congo Reform Association
Two Salafi Clerics Visit London
Their decision to wear "western clothes" in public, spark debate on modernity and morality in Northern Nigeria.
Naija, London
Photographer Liz Johnson Artur, first arrived in Peckham, London, 20 years ago to live. A neighborhood
Gaddafi Archives at the London Photography Festival
The ‘Gaddafi Archives – Libya Before the Arab Spring’, which opened this week at the London
Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle
The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
James Barnor, ever young
Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.
Making African celebrity culture
Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?
Moroccan Rockstars
The artist Hassan Hajjaj frames his portraits of ordinary Moroccans with a neat shelf crammed with 7 Up and Coca-Cola cans, symbols of a burgeoning import market and aspiration.
Nigeria outsources policing of corruption
…in London for money laundering during the Obasanjo administration. Alamasiegha’s escape to Nigeria after his court
Credit Credit Art
The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London's "Festival of the World with Mastercard."
Liz Johnson-Artur’s Archive
The Ghanaian-Russian photographer documents the African diaspora in Europe, mostly in the United Kingdom.
Weekend Music Break No.95—Afro-Europe special!
Fresh of a trip to the UK and Germany, with stops in Afro-European strongholds of London
The poet of colouredness and exile
Dennis Brutus described Arthur Nortje as “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.”
The exilic geographies of the South
Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a different path to some of the more classic refugee peregrinations.
The aesthetics of nostalgia
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.
How to Paint Ghosts
An interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia. Jean-Michel Basquiat is often cited as an influence in his work, but local experience is a bigger muse.