Applications for the 2015 Artists In Residency (AIR) Programme

  Each year, the Africa Centre, provides artists with the unique opportunity to spend four to six weeks fully dedicated to developing their craft. This year through partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Kenya, Spain, Tanzania and…

Imbolo Mbue's "Million-Dollar" Novel: Behold the Dreamers

Originally published in Scribbles from the Den Dibussi Tande     Imbolo Mbue. (March 15, 2016). Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. New York: Random House, 384 pages. Formats: Ebook, Audio, Hardcover. Available on pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.…

[Book Review]: Akpeteshie As A Symbol of Power in Benjamin Kwakye’s The Clothes of Nakedness

Kwabena Agyare Yeboah Kwakye left Ghana right after his high school education. In this novel, he set out to write something intimately Ghanaian, something that he might have not experienced in a long while. Or something he would have to…

[Poetry] A Boy by Kwabena Agyare Yeboah

  a boy stands as lost as a strand of pubic hair found in the sponge of lovers on a nuptial night   his story is a note locked in jaws   on this night, he becomes a river jittered…

The Bang Bang Club

Sanya Osha   What are the moral decisions involved in the act of taking a photograph that captures extreme human anguish and moments of demeaning death (or even moments preceding it)? Photo Credit: http://www.thebangbangclub.com/joao-silva.html   Largely, between 1990— 94, a…

Les Z'animals by SadraK

  As far back as 1995, SadraK (a member of Negrissim’) stood out as a musician whose experimental lyrics and wordplay inspired a whole generation, and Negrissim’s album Appelle Ta Grand-Mère, released in 2000 solidified the group’s position as pioneers…

Africa at Orient Music Festival 2015

  Comfort Mussa Tallinn— Estonia: The week long Orient Music festival in Tallinn, Estonia, this year witnessed the active participation of African artists from Zanzibar (Tanzania), Zimbabwe and a media team from Cameroon.   Peeter Vahi, the artistic director of…

Stream Jojo Abot's Fyfya Woto EP

[bandcamp width=350 height=588 album=3926583073 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5]   FYFYA WOTO is a young Anlo (Ghanaian) woman hungry to be loved. Caught in a compromising situation with her Caucasian lover in a time of slavery and divide, she is brought before…

[Review] Tu Know Ma Life: TV Comes to the Web

Dzekashu MacViban The notoriety of the web serial keeps growing as years pass, and more independent directors are drawn to the internet as a medium which provides experimental and more targeted dissemination models for streaming shows which are cheap and…

The Afro-Anarchist’s Guide to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’

Kangsen Feka Wakai   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8     1. You’ve recently resigned yourself to the fact that at a certain point in a rapper’s career, usually when he/she is already steering the yacht of mainstream success after having surmounted the crab-infested…

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