Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.
The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.
It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.
In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called "the African non-archive."
Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.
An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.
A prominent South African, his name is unimportant, has yet again lit up the local blogosphere
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.
Cristina De Middel self-published book "The Afronauts," revisits the 1960s shortlived, abandoned project by Zambia's government to send the first African astronauts to Mars
Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki: "If we don’t stand up for ourselves, no one else is going to do it."
For our series interviewing the new generation of African creatives, we sent questions to designer. Olalekan Jeyifous. We asked him for his five favorite designs.
An interview with Soraya Morayef, who is documenting the graffiti scene in Cairo, Beirut, Libya and Palestine.
A film about four African artists in Toronto, challenges stereotypes about Africans in Canada's media capital.
Moses Molelekwa, the brilliant South African pianist, composer and producer died by suicide on 13 February 2001. Florence Mtoba, his wife (also his manager) was found with him; she had been strangled.
In any case, here's 10 albums I liked this year; in no particular order. It includes Alabama Shakes, Isaac Mutant, Kendrick Lamar and Bruce Springsteen.
How anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media.
An interview with Nigerian-American artist, Toyin Odutola.
A black photographer who moved to South Africa from the US, explores the transcontinental dialogue between black middle class people the world over.
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,”