Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC
In the 1970s, a Congolese painter named Tshibumba Kanda Matulu began to paint a history of
In the 1970s, a Congolese painter named Tshibumba Kanda Matulu began to paint a history of
Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western gaze, the other perpetuating it.
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.
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.
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.
Johannesburg artists investigate power and its structures to interrogate the invisible forces that create them and to imagine alternatives.
Rendani Nemakavhani (alias Missblacdropp) is a Johannesburg-based graphic designer and illustrator who initiated the collaborative project
How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.
Comedian Mpho "Popps" Modikoane is the spokesman of South Africa's "Born Frees."
Afrofuturism and engaging prophetically with history.
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 multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.
Ever wonder what inspires an artist to paste red-lipped Cheshire cat grins over the mouths of
The myth of an all-white, Christian German society largely persists. So does the idea that anyone
Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.
How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?
Public art, the vandalism of Nelson Mandela’s legacy for commerce and the spoiling of public space in Cape Town.
The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."
The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.