My Favorite Photographs: Justine Brabant
Since the mid-1990s, the North and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo have
Since the mid-1990s, the North and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo have
From the director and singer-actors of the 2005 film U-Carmen eKhayelitsha comes a new “opera” film.
The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.
A review of Aimé Césaire's 'A Season in the Congo' (Une Saison au Congo) at the Young Vic theatre in London.
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.
The New York Times, in its infinite wisdom (it comes with being The New York Times),
The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.
What we learned from Day Six of the 2013 African Nations Cup held in South Africa.
The United States' star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.
Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.
How a black French rugby player's crying during the playing of the country's national anthem was appropriated for all sorts of rightwing and reactionary politics.
For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.
‘O Grande Kilapy’ (“The Great Kilapy” — ‘kilapy’ is Kimbundu for ‘scheme’, or ‘fraud’), the new
This music video for Big Frizzle’s ‘All Black Everything’, produced by London-based media house GlobalFaction made
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from
The text that comes with Agata Pietron’s photographs of youth in Kiwanja and Rutshuru (North Kivu,
Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."
Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide