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    Decolonising African cinema in the time of Netflix

    By Ana Carbajosa
    August 21, 2023
    90% of Africa’s cultural legacy resides outside the continent; audiovisual restitution is a battle for memory as urgent as artefact restitution. When film director ...
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  • Ndirande Market in southern Malawi, overlooked by mountains where, legend has it, Napolo resides. Credit: nchenga.
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    A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi

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    Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action. In March earlier this ...
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    Zimbabwean legend, Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile

    By Percy Zvomuya
    July 14, 2023
    After five decades on the stage, one of the continent’s great musical innovators, and an outspoken critic of corrupt politics, takes his last bow ...
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    Afrobeats: How does the next chapter play out?

    By Brian Too
    June 20, 2023
    Afrobeats rode on its own generated zeitgeist to become a staple of the global cultural marketplace. How does it negotiate a bigger piece of ...
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    Afrobeats: The birth of Afro-Adura

    By Doyin Olagunju
    May 27, 2023
    The fast-rising genre is spawning a new wave of Afrobeats stars, and adds a spiritual dimension rooted in a century-old African church.  In January ...
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    Drag Night Namibia: “What we are doing here today is massive”

    By Chris de Beer-Procter
    May 16, 2023
    Amid momentous legal victories and disappointing let-downs, Namibia’s queer community and activists celebrate a radical joy. It’s Drag Night in Namibia and The Loft ...
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  • Poster of the legendary Thomas Mapfumo/Oliver Mtukudzi concerts in 2013. Image courtesy: Diana Jeater.
    CultureEditor's PicksZimbabwe

    Why ZANU-PF still can’t dance to chimurenga music

    By Mwai Daka
    April 19, 2023
    ZANU-PF’s aversion to protest music only confirms the lyrical power of a line of artists from Marley and Mapfumo to Winky D.  Prominent Zimbabwean ...
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    “Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”

    By Leila Aboulela
    March 7, 2023
    An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum’s 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. AFRICAN ...
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  • A still from the 2004 Ousmane Sembène film Moolaadé.
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    Learning from Sembène: Telling the stories that matter

    By Dika Ofoma
    March 3, 2023
    A hundred years after Sembène’s birth, a budding filmmaker describes his social awakening and discovery of the late Senegalese director. I grew up primarily ...
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  • Safi Faye in repose.
    CultureEditor's PicksSenegalTribute

    Safi Faye: Farewell to a pioneering filmmaker

    By Estrella Sendra
    February 24, 2023
    Senegalese filmmaker was the first African woman to make a commercial feature film, Kaddu Beykat, in 1975. Last Thursday, as filmmakers, curators and cinephiles were ...
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