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.
Photography
Goma Rap: The 9th annual Salaam Kivu International Film Festival
When the M23 militia took control of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in Eastern Congo,
Photoscapes in Accra: Ofoe Amegavie Speaks
As photography in Ghana continues to gain recognition, Ofoe Amegavie is definitely one to watch. At
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.
This Studio Of A Life–Portraits Of Rappers And Producers
I can’t recall when I first fell in love with hip-hop, but I do know that
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.
Why Is No One Else Talking About These Musicians?
I got the chance to be part of the Redbull Basscamp in Johannesburg during October 2013.
The music that changed my life
The Cape Town suburb of Observatory is known for being a small bohemian enclave, providing low
Not just some passing foreign journalist
Lawyer and writer Elnathan John interviewed U.S. photographer Glenna Gordon. Listen.
#Photojournal: Back To The City Festival
Back To The City is a hip-hop and street fashion festival held in Johannesburg’s Newtown Precinct
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.
#CaptionThis: What was Madonna pointing at?
For some odd reason, last weekend, this striking black and white image by photographer Terry Kane
Instagramming Africa
An interview with Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, founders of the Instagram project, Everyday Africa.
Elizabeth Barrett’s house on Harrington Street
Nicholas Eppel's photographs of a working class woman's home life in central Cape Town doubles as a chronicle of the city's gentrification.
“Congo Dialogues.” Alice Seeley Harris and Sammy Baloji on exhibit in London
The London gallery Autograph ABP is currently exhibiting Alice Seeley Harris’ well-known 1904 Congo Reform Association
Elisofon’s Africa
The photographer, Elliot Elisofon's 'choice' of what to see and how was embedded in a visual colonial archive. It was never a unique choice.
A level of decadence
Muntu Vilakazi photographs the 'Politics of Bling' on Johannesburg's East Rand.