Culture
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Why ZANU-PF still can’t dance to chimurenga music
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 ... -
“Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”
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 ... -
Safi Faye: Farewell to a pioneering filmmaker
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 ... -
African fiction in 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 ... -
The best African films of 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 ... -
The best African books of 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 ... -
The best African albums of 2022
2022 was the year African musicians levelled up big time. Every other month arrived with reports of international record deals, significant chart achievements, or ...