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Born in Huambo but raised in Luanda, Rui Sérgio Afonso is one of my favorite Angolan photographers. The man is prolific on Instagram. After working for Angola's biggest communications and marketing group, Grupo Executive de Angola (Executive Center), Sérgio is now a freelance photographer. He's done extensive work with Angolan arts collective Geração 80. Here [...]
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1. The fat lady will sing. The New York Times has now featured two West African marriages in its Sunday "Vows" section in a matter of weeks. The first is of a Nigerian wedding (ceremonies in Abuja and Virginia). It's a union of a very well connected lawyer and an investment banker that makes for, shall [...]
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It was 2011 and we were preparing for TEDxDar. Behind schedule as always, we needed to get Bi Kidude, this iconic figure on our stage. We wanted to hear her voice and her story in an intimate way. We wanted to experience her magical presence, her Diva, on the small stage, away from the large [...]
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This year's turning into a good year for quality music videos. Here's another selection of 10. First one above is a single from Durban's Nandi Mngoma's new album (she has a fancy blog though there's more chance of catching updates via her Twitter account): South African dance as you know it. Next, finally here: the [...]
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Late last year, we ran a piece on the documentary Fuelling Poverty, a 30 minute crash course on the politics, implications, and significance of #OccupyNigeria and the fuel subsidy protests of January 2012. Made by Ishaya Bako and backed by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, the film deftly exposes Nigeria's failed social contract. But [...]
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From its inception as a one-off experiment in Cape Town more than 10 years ago, Chimurenga Magazine, founded by Jean Noel Ntone Edjabe, has evolved into arguably the most creative, incisive political arts and literary publication produced on the African continent, or anywhere for that matter. Over the years, with its highly original content and [...]
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised is Rama Thiaw's (born in Mauritania, grew up between Senegal and France) second long-feature film. She documents one year in the life of Thiat and Kilifeu, members of the Senegalese Keur Gui band who went on to organize the 'Y'en a Marre' movement. This will probably not be the last [...]
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Swedish photographer and visual artist Jens Assur has spent ten months producing an exhibition of 40 enormous-size, large-format photographs chronicling structural patterns in the everyday life of twelve of Africa's rapidly-changing urban centers, currently showing at the Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm. And by some coincidence, he's gone for a title of similar intent as this blog's: the [...]
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Today is Margaret Thatcher's funeral, to which guests have been asked to "wear full day ceremonial dress without swords." Remember when we blogged about Margaret Thatcher's terrible legacy? Read it again here and here. We were emphatic that "Africans don't remember Margaret Thatcher fondly." Well, we were wrong. Some Africans do like Margaret Thatcher. Here's a [...]
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A prominent South African, his name is unimportant, has yet again lit up the local blogosphere by trivializing sexual violence. He did so by describing gang rape as a free-for-all picnic and then by claiming to have had sexual relations with minors, and this when he was a teacher. The comments would be 'unfortunate' anywhere, [...]
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