The first-encounter aesthetic rush
Spoek Mathambo's whole oeuvre seems to point towards finding a new conversation.
Music
John Akomfrah is Brilliant
British filmmaker John Akonfrah will be artist-in-residence this Spring at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.
Dictators and Pop Stars
A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Everybody take out your bicycles
An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.
