
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.
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.
The artist Gérard Quenum's work suggest that society’s collective bad parenting and maltreatment cannot ever, completely ransack the spirit.
They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.
A recent trip to Israel and the new sub-set work he produced there, raises some doubts about Kehinde Wiley's art practice.
Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.
While some in the virtual AIAC office have been putting together their summer lists, I thought
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.
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.
Artists wanted to comment on the political struggles and religious undercurrents roughing up Tunisian society. Religious zealots, backed by the state, shut them down.
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
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.
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, the critically acclaimed South African photographer, has done an interview with Guernica (H/T Glenna Gordon) in which
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an
“Coca-Cola Bird” stands facing the corner of the gallery, half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition,
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola's authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.
The ever-well-informed African Art in London announced this week that Yinka Shonibare’s contribution to the fourth plinth of
The recent announcement of the Guggenheim Foundation’s new “Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative” bears all