Memory, between nostalgia and archive
The relevance of Mauritius in the flows and exchanges between global superpowers, especially Britain and the United States.
Art
The Young Lords In New York Exhibit: A timely and provocative look at a political movement
In 1970, a young man of color who was a member of a radical group was
Ghana’s CHALE WOTE Street Arts Festival and the corporations
The CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival in Accra has grown over the last four years, expanding
The single story of African design
A new book highlights African innovation, challenging dominant perceptions of the continent.
History will break your heart
An interview - captured on film - with Cape Town-born artist Kemang Wa Lehulere about his work.
Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC
In the 1970s, a Congolese painter named Tshibumba Kanda Matulu began to paint a history of
Gazing at a distance
Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western gaze, the other perpetuating it.
Cape Town is Three Countries: Curatorship in times of load shedding
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
In the time of xenophobia
The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.
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.
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.
Mythologies of the Future
Johannesburg artists investigate power and its structures to interrogate the invisible forces that create them and to imagine alternatives.
Thirty Days Of Joburg City
Rendani Nemakavhani (alias Missblacdropp) is a Johannesburg-based graphic designer and illustrator who initiated the collaborative project
The Venice Hustle
How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.
Performing Society’s Provocations
Comedian Mpho "Popps" Modikoane is the spokesman of South Africa's "Born Frees."
Tomorrow is the Question
Afrofuturism and engaging prophetically with history.
Which Art History in Africa?
As an art writer working in Africa, I have no available model to craft an entire practice of writing books on contemporary art in Uganda.
The importance of cultural preservation
The multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.
The Triptych: On the personal stories of three of contemporary art’s freshest black voices
Ever wonder what inspires an artist to paste red-lipped Cheshire cat grins over the mouths of
Decolonising white Berlin
The myth of an all-white, Christian German society largely persists. So does the idea that anyone