People are going to know who Bob Hewitt is
Bob Hewitt migrated from Australia to apartheid South Africa. There he became a champion in white tennis. He is also accused of abusing children whose families trusted him as their tennis coach.
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Controversy and the National Arts Theatre in Lagos
The theater, built by the military and finished in time for FESTAC in 1977, has always been a site of public disagreement.
Zambian skull (plus Zambian guide) in a London art gallery
The Thai-born artist, Pratchaya Phinthong, mines Zambia's colonial history to explore how historical narratives are performed through objects.
Sathima’s swansong
There is a time for everything: Between Afropunk and the passing of a musical legend, Sathima Bea Benjamin, is our Weekend Music Break.
Violence against children doesn’t take place in a vacuum
A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.
Who no know go know
The words and images found in the Chronic have a tendency to defy simple consumption.
South African Low-Fi Freedom
A group of artists attempt to democratized the image of the country's past through ripping clips off Youtube to re-author what South Africans once knew.
Chief Boima Interviews … Kae Sun
In our current #hashtag fueled media landscape, it is fairly hard for an up-and-coming artist to emerge outside of predetermined genre, social, or sonic signifiers. However, as an artist develops, sometimes they manage to chip away at the walls the media traps them in. With each project they are able to reinvent their aesthetic, while […]
Photographing the African Diaspora in New York City
A group of graduate students in New York photograph the city's immigrant and refugee communities, especially the African ones.
Tuesday morning quarterbacking*
The meaningless football tournaments of the summer–mostly to the benefit of sponsors–are thankfully now over. Club football calendars from around the world have been synched (mainly to please European club owners), so this weekend was basically the start of the 2013/2014 season. This is also the first time North American fans of the English Premier League can watch every game. With the opening weekend out of the way, we can safely say NBC’s off to a good start–no one misses Eric Wynalda and Warren Bartlett or FOX’s plastic studio, but Piers Morgan as a guest host? And what’s with underestimating the football knowledge of American-based fans or presenting supporting a club is like picking different kinds of cereal? At least NBC have great commercials.
Escaping categorization
Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye doesn't want to be pigeonholed. Neither does he want his country to be. So his art actively works against that.
Chief Boima interviews … Alec Lomami
This summer I’ve been hired as a freelancer for Iggy, MTV’s global music website. The site is aimed at young people to introduce them to the idea that pop music is a global phenomenon (if today’s tech savvy youth already didn’t know.) I get paid by Viacom every time I put something up there, but it’s a pretty quick moving stream of content, and posts tend to disappear rather quickly. I thought it would be good to run each one of my posts as a series over here on Africa is a Country.