Shadow and Axed
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
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Maestro Sidibé
The author, also a photographer, writes about receiving the sad news that Malick Sidibé, the Malian master photographer, has died, at the age of 80.
Weekend Music Break No.93
Welcome back to our Music Break, after it took a bit of a break itself. Enjoy this selection of tunes from around the African diaspora, and beyond. This week, we kick off with Afrikan Boy and his latest video for his song “Kunta Kinte”; then, Eazzy brings the neo-Alkaida Hiplife vibes via Ghana; Tanzania’s Vanessa Mdee goes […]
A Revolution in Many Tongues
There is not a single journal devoted to literary criticism in an African language or any writer residencies that encourage writing in African languages.
Pan African Space Station, NYC
A periodic, pop-up live radio studio, a performance and exhibition space, a research platform and living archive.
Ghanaian Facebook Proverbs
No, Albert Einstein never said this on Facebook: “Having an okro mouth does not mean you will be given banku to go with it.”
It’s good for the future of cinema that Africa exists
Reviving our #MovieNight feature: A fortnightly feature rounding up movie news.
A non verb
At a time when South Africa is on fire politically, there is sadly zero social commentary on rapper Proverb's album, "The Read Tape."
The art of Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Beauty, stillness, and connection in Lagos, Nigeria.
Mixed feelings: Reflections on the Ivy League
An illusion of diversity and inclusion masks and protects institutionalized inequality and privilege masks elite universities in the United States.
Soundcloud Africa
Africa is a Country hosted Chimurenga's pop up Pan-African Space Station transmission. It's archived here.
A Decade of Scotland’s Africa-in-Motion Film Festival
2015 marked the tenth anniversary of the Africa-in-Motion film festival, the showcase for African cinema in Scotland, which its director Lizelle Bischoff has described as being a wider, more-encompassing arts festival. The festival’s home has traditionally been the Edinburgh Filmhouse, an independent cinema in the city centre. From 2007 onwards, the festival began to take its […]
Weekend Music Break No.92
It’s time again for another Weekend Music Break with Africa is a Country! Enjoy this round of tunes and visuals from the continent and its sphere of cultural influence. The music thing that excited me most all week was coming to find out that Booba joined Sidiki Diabate on stage last December in Paris during his rendition of […]
Rearranging the furniture in Stellenbosch
The vigorous disruption by social movements and artists of the thuggish racialized mythmaking that dominates Stellenbosch’s cultural memory.
Abdi Latif Ega and the rejection of the ‘African’ novel
Somali-American novelist Ega speaks about creating complex characters, the relationship of images to creative writing and the state of African literature today.
Music pours down in Lima
The music of Peru's capital: from the cumbia chicha bands of the local huekos, the punk-rock revival, electrocumbia sounds, and much more.
Love, race and history in Ghana
Historian Carina Ray on her book that explores the history of interracial intimacy in the Gold Coast and Ghana.
Weekend Music Break No.91
We’re back with the first Weekend Music Break of 2016. A series of videos for you to enjoy as you ease into relax (or catchup) mode: 1) Our selection this weekend starts off with a video shot by AIAC film editor Dylan Valley — Niko10Long hips us to the real Politrix going down in Cape Town, South Africa. […]
The struggle is real for local South African films
It’s no secret that what passes for South African cinema is not representative of the population.
Akin Omotoso’s Hustle
To every passing person, he calls out variations of one question: "What film are you watching? Are you watching my film?