Image Source “Troubled” is the lead single created by iconic Botswana artists teaming up with a Danish based production team for a new project exploring mental health in the creative Read More..
Art & Culture
The Gambia Academy of Music and Culture seeks to systematically decolonize the education system and educate African children from the African perspective
Image Source The Gambian artist and “first female Kora virtuoso” from a west African Griot family, Sona Jobarteh, is building a cultural academy, The Gambia Academy of Music and Culture Read More..
Ibrahim Abougendy, the Egyptian designer who turns scrap into furniture – in pictures
Image Source Africa has long been known for upcycling – the creation of new goods from salvage ones – as part of daily life, for informal reuse of scrap materials Read More..
Surviving COVID-19: The Neglected Remedy
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), one of the biggest civil society movements in Africa, presents the “first mini-Barefoot Guide” and the “first in a new Agroecology” series “Surviving Read More..
The Owner of One the World’s Most Important African Art Collections Dies
Image Source Sindika Dokolo, the Congolese businessman has died aged 48. Dokolo was born in 1972 in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo then known as Zaire. The son Read More..
Ghostly Presences in Addis Ababa: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste
Image Source “THESE ARE NOT gentle stories,” Maaza Mengiste warns in the introduction to Addis Ababa Noir. Mengiste, whose second novel, The Shadow King, was recently shortlisted for the Booker Prize, assembled Read More..