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.
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Germany’s Turn
What to make of Germany’s newest arts funding program for the African continent, TURN, a 2 million Euro art and culture initiative that will last till 2015.
If dolls never die, neither does their past
The artist Gérard Quenum's work suggest that society’s collective bad parenting and maltreatment cannot ever, completely ransack the spirit.
When W Magazine Went to Johannesburg
They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.
Kehinde Wiley goes to Israel
A recent trip to Israel and the new sub-set work he produced there, raises some doubts about Kehinde Wiley's art practice.
The most interesting bits
Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.
Winter List: Festivals in Southern Africa
While some in the virtual AIAC office have been putting together their summer lists, I thought
Cargoland
Romuald Hazoumé reminds us that like the perishing oil reserves being plumbed in Africa and around the world, water may soon also be fiercely fought over.
Utopia Unstuck
Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.
Salafists and art in Tunisia
Artists wanted to comment on the political struggles and religious undercurrents roughing up Tunisian society. Religious zealots, backed by the state, shut them down.
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.
Africa is a Science Fiction Superpower
A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.
Pieter Hugo on ‘political correctness’
Pieter Hugo, the critically acclaimed South African photographer, has done an interview with Guernica (H/T Glenna Gordon) in which
Where is contemporary African art? Not at Bonhams
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the
Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an
Coca-Cola can’t copyright colour: the art of Sokari Douglas Camp
“Coca-Cola Bird” stands facing the corner of the gallery, half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition,
Africa as Science Fiction
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
Art and assassination in Angola
A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola's authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.
Yinka Shonibare’s National Treasure
The ever-well-informed African Art in London announced this week that Yinka Shonibare’s contribution to the fourth plinth of