What are the “unintended consequences of Dutch colonialism”?
In their documentary installation piece “Empire: The unintended consequences of colonialism,” filmmaker team Eline Jongsma and
colonialism
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.
Did Britain’s MI6 put a hit on Lumumba?
When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.
Africa is a Board Game
Players in the board game, "Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa," are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa's "vast wilderness."
Tintin’s Day in a Belgian Court
Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.
The geo-branding war
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide
Reverse Colonization
How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.
The Hall of Shame
We couldn't resist including a post with some of the lowlights of 2011.
Translating Angola
Why are certain kinds of war stories embraced by critics and go on to find an international audience, while other finely written stories do not?
Fighting somebody else's war
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings We British are very good at honoring the dead. Last Friday Prime
Music Break. Dengue Fever
A lot of music we like don’t come from Africa. Like this one from Dengue Fever,
Colonialism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHK308_MTiU&w=600&h=373] A satirical film made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. Worth seeing again. It
'Mapping Africa'
This is brilliant. The BBC, working with the Royal Geographical Society, has posted an audio slideshow
The View from Freetown
An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone's capital.
Africa on Film: Out of Africa
While reviewing this week’s film, Out of Africa (1985), for our series Africa on Film, I
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.