Eritrea has expelled all international correspondents and banned local private newspapers since 2001. One consequence is that Western media have had to play up their “unique” or “rare” access to “the North Korea of Africa.” Over the last two years, some leading media–having gone through endless bureaucratic hassles and rejections–such as the BBC, France 24, […]
Zoë Wicomb's fellow South African, JM Coetzee once wrote: "For years we have been waiting to see what the literature of post-apartheid South Africa will look like. Now Zoe Wicomb delivers the goods."
Seeking to interrogate unhelpful media (and official) narratives that permeate everyday discourse and obscure the truth about these terrorist organizations is important.
The judgment that Sankara was a hero rests in part on what was politically possible in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s.
Interview with historian Dan Magaziner about his new book, The Art of Life in South Africa, about one of the few art schools training black art teachers under Apartheid.
Winnie was everything Africans - and African women in particular - were not supposed to be.
Art players and enthusiasts from around the world and down the street will coalesce at the Cape International Convention Centre 17-19 February for the latest staging of the Cape Town Art Fair. Now in its 5th iteration, the fair’s gallery participation and audiences have grown as the global interest in African art has blossomed. This […]
Reigniting an important debate on the entanglements between the production of justice and the fragility of continental legal mechanisms.
Peter Abrahams lived pan-Africanism (in South Africa, Britain and Jamaica) and remained brave enough to challenge those within it.
For this weekend’s music break, we’ll have a second edition of “Songs from banned countries.” This time we go to Somalia via Seattle — which is a fitting connection because the judge who ordered Trump’s country ban illegal is based in Seattle. So, in the spirit of The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s opposition to Trump’s xenophobic […]
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
We’re returning to the older format of Weekend Music Break (a series of embeds rather than a playlist) for this very special guest selection from proud Sudanese-American Ahmed “Sinkane” Gallab. We reached out to Ahmed to give us a selection of tunes from his parents’ homeland, one of the seven countries on US President Donald Trump’s […]
Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country's cities.
Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.
This selection of smooth Afropop illustrates Delasi's transnational vision for contemporary African art and music.
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.
“… The stakes are very high: literally, survival of organized human society in any decent form,” Noam Chomsky tells Brooklyn Rail, as the former British colony of the United States of America, inaugurates its 45th president. So, this weekend’s Music Break goes out to our American family, who are set to face four years of struggle […]
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned, or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK's birthday with a public holiday. Africans should too.
Elaine Salo, who died on August 13, 2016, had done the hard work of liberation and engaged head-on with the limits and promises of the new South Africa.