Just one long war
The US is re-upping its failed "war on drugs" in Central America. The spin is they will fight "violence and poverty." This won't end well.
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Bogotá’s Music
Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.
African Hip Hop
This week I thought I’d try something a little different, inspired by some links I came across on Twitter. Earlier this week, John Edwin Mason tweeted a story from The Guardian featuring five African musical acts to watch in 2015. Three of the five acts featured in this article were either hip hop acts or […]
Roger Young’s ‘Keys, Money, Phone’ explores the heart of young whiteness in Cape Town
Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and social media, and for good reason. In the past few months, a number of racially motivated assaults on black people in Cape Town’s affluent suburbs have surfaced. This month Nelson Mandela’s former personal assistant Zelda La Grange had a […]
Your concepts of African belonging
The El Foukr R'Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.
Many Terence Rangers
If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.
Africa Cup of Nations Memories: Cameroon’s shootout victory over Nigeria, enjoyed on VHS two days after the match
My favourite AFCON memory harks back to the year 2000 when Ghana and Nigeria co-hosted. To say it was a challenge to watch this competition is an understatement! This marked the era before internet streams and mass football broadcasting in North America. As recent immigrants to Canada, my family carried over our footballing passion but […]
Apartheid is not truly behind us
It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city's busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.
El México Guerrero: Ayotzinapa’s defiant struggle for justice
On the night of September 26th, 2014, in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, 43 students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa were intercepted and shot by the municipal police of Iguala. The survivors were later abducted by a local criminal group known as Guerreros Unidos at the request of the […]
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Newton Aduaka
For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.
Do critiques of representation make a real difference?
The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.
The birth of Malawian hip hop
Bantu Khamuladzi are pioneers of Malawian hip hop. Like most first generation African hip hop artists, they mimicked American styles, then found their own voices.