Results of today’s parliamentary and presidential elections in Ghana are expected at the earliest by Sunday. (BTW, in areas where “the biometric verification machines did not work” voting has been extended till tomorrow.) Once you’ve checked out our elections preview (yes, our Dennis Laumann predicts incumbent President John Dramini Dramani Mahama will win a tight election), keep up […]
Most media reports of “political murders” in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa don't situate them in their larger historical context.
Sbujwa is a South African dance described as a dance that requires every muscle in your body to work in order to complete the moves.
Documentary filmmakers are better at spreading the word about their new work on the web compared to fiction directors, or there’s just more documentary films being made. (Or I’m looking in the wrong places.) Here are ten more films to watch out for. First, four fiction features: A Menina dos Olhos Grandes (“The girl with […]
Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.
The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.
Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
Before it closed, Bar Etiopia had been running for ten years by the graceful Abeba. It was located on Via Tadino, P.ta Venezia, a neighborhood close to downtown Milan, where many different communities found their home and have been running activities in the last few decades: Indians, Filipinos and, above all, immigrants from former Italian […]
The United States' star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.
In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,” Sean O’Toole wrote recently in Frieze. The first Biennale in Lubumbashi in the DRC — being organised by Sammy Baloji, Patrick Mudekereza and Elvira Dyangani Ose — was postponed suddenly only two months before it was due to open. O’Toole […]
It might not be Dakar or Nairobi, but Gaborone certainly does not look empty.