Cargoland
Romuald Hazoumé reminds us that like the perishing oil reserves being plumbed in Africa and around the world, water may soon also be fiercely fought over.
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Wet Hot African Summer
We’ve scoured the web to bring you the best and worst romance, adventure, intrigue, and kinky fantasies Africa has to offer.
Credit Credit Art
The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London's "Festival of the World with Mastercard."
Summer in Paris
In what may be the last in a while of my posts highlighting the latest in French music culture, here's a list of tunes for the northern summer.
More than one specter haunts South Africa
This week, the World Bank issued a report, South Africa Economic Update: Inequality of Opportunity. The report accurately and unsurprisingly details the depth of inequality in the new South Africa. For some, this report, and even more inequality itself, proves that “the spirit of Verwoerd still haunts” the nation. For others, the report details a […]
Africa Tumblrs: microblogs for lazy readers
Top photo tumblrs, not in any particular order, that Kola thinks you should be following if you have any interest in Africa.
The Summer List
For our traveling readers , here are a list of Africa-related exhibitions and readings this summer taking place in a wide range of cities around the world.
Summer in the City
The pick of summer 2012's shows and parties in New York City.
Family Matters
Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
Lesotho gets the Kristof Treatment
Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.
Silent Elections
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from ‘Silent Elections’, a 40 min. documentary film Belgian video artist Sarah Vanagt produced in 2009. In the opening scene, she explains how “[in] 2005, I met Tonton (15), Dodo (14), and Daniel (12), three street children living on the […]
Chop Cassava
Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.