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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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    Jigna

    By Vanessa Tsehaye
    May 24, 2023
    On Eritrea’s 30th Independence Day, a granddaughter’s lament for her departed grandmother – and for her country.   My grandmother, Roma Solomon, died heartbroken. She ...
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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.
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    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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  • CultureTop story

    African fiction in 2023

    By Samira Sawlani
    February 10, 2023
    2022 saw writers from Africa and the Diaspora bring us some literary gems (see our list of Best Books  of 2022). 2023 promises to ...
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  • African films of 2022
    CultureTop story

    The best African films of 2022

    By Wilfred Okiche
    December 15, 2022
    In an uncertain year for the industry, African cinema continued to thrive as filmmakers found industrious ways to create despite myriad roadblocks. Many of ...
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  • Best African books of 2022.
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    The best African books of 2022

    By Samira Sawlani
    December 14, 2022
    From the thought provoking and evocative to the laughter inducing, here are our best African books of 2022 (in no particular order).  Things They ...
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