The art of Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor’s images always work as a proliferation of forms. It’s the sort of proliferation that
Media
What do Nigerians really think and know about homosexuality?
Nigeria's homophobia is at variance with Google analytics, which shows that Nigeria ranks in the top five in the world for searches for gay porn.
Meleko Mokgosi’s monumental installations
The paintings in Meleko Mokgosi's ongoing "Pax Kaffraria" series interrogate colonialism, politics, power, and identity in Botswana and Southern Africa
The Economist sees a bright side of Oscar Pistorius’ trial
For accurate, detailed and nuanced information about violence against women in South Africa, don't read The Economist.
The post-1994 power brokers and black liberation
Where does this leave the majority of largely poor, black and unskilled people affected by the competing interests of powerful groups?
Rwanda and the New York Times
On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.
Nigeria, come get your president
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment - gets mocked on Twitter - for his government's inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
‘Township’ is a Planet for Aliens
If you only visit South African townships to confirm your prejudices and not to experience them the way they are, stay away.
Race Science Files: New York Times edition
Just what level of racist insanity does an "expert" have to exhibit before the New York Times starts to think they're not an expert?
Who are Boko Haram, and how did they come to be?
This is currently Boko Haram's structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.
The Slave Ship Theme
The Cape Town company that designs and markets "slave ship" ironing boards and aprons.
The African Cake
Last week a bunch of smartly dressed activists, myself included, made a visit to the UK’s
The Edutainment Industrial-Complex
The ONE organization (it counts one of Warren Buffett’s sons as well as Bono, Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleezza
Europeans ‘rescuing’ African art from obscurity again
For years Bisi Silva, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim and others have been active players in the art world. Why are they being written out of the story?
What’s it like to be Somali in Kenya
Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.
What they don’t tell you about Stellenbosch
The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch's black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: How Unexpected
From this week’s Washington Post Travel Section–“How unexpected: There was more modernity than I expected, such
Let’s talk about #CancelColbert
Colbert’s satire is based in a smug ironic whiteness. It doesn't mean I have to like it or can't feel it's problematic or alienating as a person of color.
The Expatriate
Ethiopian-American artist, Wayna, explores issues including police brutality, disenfranchisement, race and identity in her music.
The FBI’s Hustle
The contradictions of U.S.'s domestic and international policies manifested by its wars on drugs, terror, and the country's Black communities.