Rokia Traore visits Malian refugees
Rokia Traore visited Goudoubo camp, Burkina Faso. The camp hosts some 10,000 Malian refugees who fled a conflict…
Technology Robots invade the streets of Kinshasa
By Habibou Bangré in Kinshasa The giant robotic policemen are preventing accidents – and racketeering by dishonest officials.…
African Music Legends Pay Homage to Mandela
African superstars Johnny Clegg and Youssou N’Dour paid homage on Sunday to late South African icon Nelson Mandela…
PICTURE RIO: WHY SO MANY BRAZILIANS HATE THE WORLD CUP By Eugene Reznik
Mario Tama, a staff photographer for Getty Images, first caught my eye a few months ago with this…
The film Zulu, 50 years on: classic or racist? By Kimon de Greef
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the film “Zulu”. While some consider it a classic, others see…
11June – 11 July 2O14 Artist Lida Sheraftmand : Internals Worlds, External Relations with the London School of Economics, London
The exhibition is to be opened by the High Commissioner of Malta to the United Kingdom, His…
The Zaire School of Popular Painting: An Art of Independence
The Zaire School of Popular Painting emerged as an artistic movement in the 1970s and has tracked the…
Nigerian Photographer Rotimi Fani Kayode: Exposing Prejudice Through the Nude
Spiritual and homosexual, the photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode have allowed us to re-evaluate what constitutes black African male…
Asa is back with “Dead Again”
After a three-year break from the scene, Nigeria’s Asa is back with a new single. Recently arrived, “Dead…
The Rise in Consciousness: Rebirth of revolutionary African music by OUSAINOU MBENGA
The role that music plays in the African liberation struggle against exploitation and oppression has suffered a relative…
Urbain, Olivier, editor. Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics. 2008. I.B. Tauris, UK, in collaboration with the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan. BY THERESA WOLFWOOD. DIRECTOR, THE BARNARD-BOECKER CENTRE FOUNDATION
“Music has an inexplicable way of elevating humankind to its noblest action.” Youssou N´Dour, Senegalese singer “…creative ability…
We Stand With Our Sister: Stop the Attacks on Myrlande Liberis-Pavert and the Lavalas Movement
A Statement from Haiti Action Committee On Friday, January 17, it was reported by news agencies that a…