Teddy Goitom is a Swedish-Ethiopian/Eritrean content producer and the founder of Stocktown (1998), “a cultural movement celebrating creativity and freedom of souls”, which includes a curated video magazine founded in 2011 as well as the Afripedia-series, which AIAC has covered here. Though his base is in Stockholm, this curious and hard-working creative is constantly shifting between times […]
Can we teach about Latin America not exploiting its shock-value or as a ready-to-consume entity?
Understanding the complex cultural history of Africolombians and how difficult it has been for its artists to fight for recognition.
Singer Kaneng Lolang is a cosmopolitan currently living in Ouagadougou. She’s spent quality time in Siberia and Brooklyn, but her roots are in Nigeria, Lagos, specifically
A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.
In 2010, I acquired an illegal copy of The Clonious’ Between the dots LP after hearing him play a set on Mary-Anne Hobbs’ Generation Bass programme which used to be hosted on BBC Radio 1. I instantly fell in love with his production style, a gently-grinding jazz crusade characterised by lush-sounding synth pads and a […]
Africa is a Country is pleased to premiere the music video for “Séké” by DJ Mellow and Steloo: The song, whose title means “crazy” in Ga, is part of Brussels-based DJ Mellow’s A Slice of Bass EP. The collaboration between him and Accra’s Steloo came about via Max Le Daron, who I mentioned Monday was one of the participants in Akwaaba Music’s Roots of […]
The Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman put on blackface to fight the racist caricature Zwarte Piet.
With Kwame Nkrumah's support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.
Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.
As a DJ, having the platform of Africa is a Radio to showcase the music I’m feeling from artists around the world is a lot of fun, and quite rewarding. But, providing insight into the other branch of the music industry I work in, as a producer (creator), is something I don’t do nearly enough of. Partly because […]
As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.
Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.
A punk festival comes close to what one would imagine the DIY-embracing, eccentricity-accepting and obedience-ignoring CBGB’s of the ‘70s to have been like.
Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it's the right time to do it more regularly.
How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?
Legendary documentarian Jihan El-Tahri started her career as a journalist, working as a news agency correspondent and TV researcher covering Middle East politics before starting to direct and produce documentaries for French TV, the BBC, PBS and other international broadcasters. She has since directed more than a dozen films including the Emmy nominated The House […]
I remember being awe-struck by a picture I saw in on the Sunday papers somewhere around 2005. The members looked militant in their shades and flowing locks. There was a sense of urgency in the female lead’s look which stuck with me: black shades, black beret, all-black everything! They reminded me of Peter Tosh and the […]
Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa's democratic president, Nelson Mandela.
Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.