Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko's mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
Art
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
Paul Sika, "Andy Warhol’s grandson"
The very talented Ivorian artist Paul Sika (I’ve linked to Paul’s work last year on my
Video: Interview with artist Thando Mama
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWdGfKXK3U&w=500&h=307] A 9-minute excerpt from a new short video documentary (20 minutes in all) about the
The Rape of Africa
Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle chose Naomi Campbell to represent how Africa is raped for its resources. Did it work?
America? Begging in Nigeria!
A white woman begging in Lagos's popular Mushin Market. Turns out it is a performance piece.
Afrikaners
The first group of people who called themselves Afrikaners were Orlams people, who would be called coloured in South Africa today.
Is this Nollywood?
A lot of people, not just Nigerians or its media, are pleased with white South African photographer Pieter Hugo's portrayal of Nollywood.
Kehinde Wiley paints African football
Wiley, known for painting black men as figures from Renaissance art, now does the same with Africa's best football talents.
Superheroes of History
Batman watches Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro addressing US media in an imagined black-and-white 1959 photograph.