
A History in Fragments
The recent explosions in the Stade de France was one of the most surreal things to ever take place in a stadium built nearly two decades ago specifically to house history.

The recent explosions in the Stade de France was one of the most surreal things to ever take place in a stadium built nearly two decades ago specifically to house history.

The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.

The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."


The author stars as the famed South African activist in a new play. Dulcie September was murdered by a conspiracy of South African and French death squads.

The story of Africans' involvement in World War I is largely unheard of outside of academia.

Does the graphic novel, 'Aya of Yop City', retain its texture in its transformation to the screen?

For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like 'Phone Swap,' 'Tango with Me,' 'Last Flight to Abuja' and 'Maami,' is an eye-opener.


We must stop thinking that 'Africa’ must either progress together or stagnate. Each country has its own story, its own sovereignty.

A rare and informative glimpse into a situation and part of the world that normally only receives minimal, lazy, and inaccurate coverage.

A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.

Jean Suret-Canale changed the face of African history for African activists, students and intellectuals.

Here's a selection of articles that go the extra mile and poke holes in the narrow frame of the "Malian crisis."

Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.

Al Jazeera is planning a French language version of its news network. That means, government funded France 24 will be in direct competition with it for viewership in Africa and amongst the continent's French speaking diaspora.

For all its cinema glitz, Cannes is in a part of France associated with the far right and very anti-immigrant, so it is a treat to see the region is hosting an African themed film festival.