In the past, black portraiture has tended towards fanciful depictions that have little semblance to the lived experiences of Black and Brown bodies, from the African continent and beyond.
02/12/2020
30 philosophers challenging the traditional western canon.
02/12/2020
After his victory in 2016, President Akufo-Addo announced that he would clean government. But when the main corruption fighter came too close, he was sent on leave.
02/12/2020
Exploitation and imagination in the works of this year’s principal winner of the Prince Claus Award.
02/12/2020
Nok terracottas are proof that an ancient civilisation once existed in Nigeria. Now they are at the centre of a multi-million dollar, globe-spanning underground industry. Nigeria loses out.
24/11/2020
We are standing in solidarity with African changemakers. Highlighting their stories and insights. Building a world beyond them and us. Join the movement!
23/11/2020
Michael Schmidt’s Death Flights uncovers one of the darkest chapters of Apartheid oppression.
18/11/2020
The #Jerusalemadancechallenge will enter history as the global COVID-19 crisis’ unprecedented, contemporary African-inspired symbol of hope. Yet the Angolan origins of this viral trend, and the reason behind Jerusalema’s explosive popularity, are barely touched upon by the international media.
10/11/2020
The million dollar deals between President Paul Biya and American PR companies
02/11/2020
Why are Africans not dying?
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If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that not even a pandemic can erase the inherent racism in the Western media and in humanitarian organisations.
02/11/2020
I am in the back of a taxi. Approaching a police checkpoint, my eye catches the phrase #Maskup on a billboard towering above the chaotic street in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
29/10/2020
What happens when governmental tasks like detention and rehabilitation are taken over by uncontrolled international corporations?
19/10/2020
Inside a Nigerian queer community safe house.
19/10/2020
Tales of a salt farmer and a people reinventing and adapting through coronavirus have caught the eye of this year's Ugandan and Kenyan winners.
19/10/2020
Scene after scene of intense beauty and horror are almost minutely described in Maaza Mengiste monumental novel The Shadow King.
19/10/2020
Observing the largest gathering of black people I had ever seen in Amsterdam, I realised that their pain was familiar, yet we knew so little of each other, separated not just by geography and language, but also by a suppression of our stories.
15/10/2020
Book Review | The Old Drift
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From Namwanli Serpell's novel emerges a Zambia that is vibrant, energetic and full of life. But it is certainly not a paradise.
12/10/2020
The documentary Lamentations of Judas, shot in Pomfret, South Africa, was recently nominated for one of the Dutch 'Oscars', the Gouden Kalf. Bram Posthumus recalls the story of Angolan mercenaries fighting on their own in a Cold War era.
08/10/2020
Sinds de uitbraak van Covid 19 werden mensen zich ervan bewust 'dat het individualisme weliswaar had gefunctioneerd voor hen in tijden van stabiliteit, maar dat het hen nergens zou brengen in tijden van stress. Ze hadden elkaar nodig', schrijft Sisonke Msimang in een essay dat verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de expositie A Fair Share of Utopia.
05/10/2020
Since the Covid 19 pandemic people have realised that 'while individualism had worked for them in times of stability, it would get them nowhere in times of stress. They needed one another.', writes Sisonke Msimang in an essay for the exhibition ‘A Fair Share of Utopia’.
05/10/2020