Guest Post by Robert Nathan They’re not your average musicians. Sons of West African griots and court musicians brought up in Washington DC and St. Louis, Weedie Braimah and Amadou Kouyate have straddled the Atlantic all their lives. Indoors, they assiduously studied the kora and the djembe under the guidance of their fathers — master […]
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
It’s quite a weekend for New York’s prodigal child. Hip-Hop, that burst of youthful energy that was put out into the universe 30 plus years ago is coming back home from several places at once. It’s arriving at a time when Rap music, in its birthplace, confusingly straddles the realms of hyper-capitalism, political activism, youth expression, marginalized’s […]
The Pistorius' murder trial is a good time to review how New York Times reported on another South African killing: Marikana.
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey's influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki, picks her five favorite photographs and shares some words about how and where the images were made.
The Kenyan people have voted. The Kenyan elections have come and not quite gone. The foreign press offered its readers a veritable smorgasbord of dreadfully decontextualized representations, and now that the actual polling has passed, you can just about taste the collective disappointment at the absence of spectacular violence. As the local Kenyan press noted, […]
In "Searching for Sugar Man," Rodriguez the man feels more like an awkward prop in a story of white redemption rather than the star of his own movie.
I have been a little silent lately here on AIAC. I’m gonna start posting more, although perhaps in briefer form (do visit duttyartz.com to see some of what I’ve been up to recently). For now I leave you with the White Mandingos: While tapping into an Internet ethos which is totally unserious and trivializing (the […]
How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe.
Vice.com's reductive and alarmist style of writing about the continent is not only outdated, but deplorable and contravenes responsible journalism.
We ought to ask questions about Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. But also about the history of Chevron, Exxon, and Conoco in the country.