Photography
The photographer Paul Strand’s Portraits of 1960s Ghana
With Kwame Nkrumah's support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.
Walking With Wole Soyinka
Professor Soyinka's steps were smart and sure, not betraying his age and decades of struggle against the vilest rulers Nigeria has had.
Vivian Maier’s 100,000 Photographs
Except for the people that saw her take pictures, nobody else knew what the Chicago street photographer did and very little was known of her.
The perfect wall to paint
The illustrators Fuzzy Slipperz and Skubalisto and the photographer Mooki Mooks on being an artist in present-day South Africa.
Not just some passing foreign journalist
Lawyer and writer Elnathan John interviewed U.S. photographer Glenna Gordon. Listen.
News from Nigeria
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
Rwanda and the New York Times
On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.
Who decides what is African?
The photographer Zanele Muholi equally mourns and celebrates South African queer lives.
The everyday lives of African immigrants in South Africa
An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.
Instagramming Africa
An interview with Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, founders of the Instagram project, Everyday Africa.