The New Black Films
There is something to be said about the sheer volume of highly-anticipated films made by black filmmakers or about communities of color.
There is something to be said about the sheer volume of highly-anticipated films made by black filmmakers or about communities of color.
The ‘premature’ launch of South Africa’s second 24-hour news television channel.
A review of Aimé Césaire's 'A Season in the Congo' (Une Saison au Congo) at the Young Vic theatre in London.
It’s starting to get sticky in Washington DC and that means it’s time for music to
Blitz the Ambassador's last major project was 'Native Sun.' Now he is taking the party on the road.
Nollywood, the world’s second largest film industry, produces over 2000 films annually, and now, seven of its best will be screened at France’s first ever NollywoodWeek Paris.
An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.
An interview with the filmmaker Dehanza Rogers, about the film "Sweet, Sweet Country," a fictional film capturing the harsh personal choices of Africans in Clarkson, a town in Georgia known for its large immigrant population.
An interview with Swedish photographer Jens Assur about his exhibition, "Africa is a Great Country," about representation of Africa and visual clichés in general.
Pierre Thiam, a Senegalese-born chef defining African restaurant food in the United States, argues that it is insulting to categorize African cuisine into one box.
“In Africa today, musicians keep in touch with global pop culture via the Internet and program
This Saturday I’ll be djing between acts at The Apollo Theater’s Africa Now! Concert. Yesterday, I
The Stadsschouwburg of Amsterdam, an iconic theater in the city, organizes a festival on the continent that consists mostly of the work of white artists.
Well, the snowstorm in Boston will be shortening the length of the conference, and the performance
An ode to The Mahogany Room, the pre-eminent live jazz venue in Cape Town, South Africa.
A black photographer who moved to South Africa from the US, explores the transcontinental dialogue between black middle class people the world over.
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.
Rachid Khimoune grew up in a small mining town in Northern France where his Algerian parents
The American artist says he wants to tackle Françafrique; to turn it on its head. But in the process, he can't help repeat stereotypes and artificial divisions.
The film, "Veejays," comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.