Africa: Global Stars Unite for Earthshot Prize in South Africa
[The Earthshot Prize] Some of the world’s most influential artists, athletes, musicians, and advocates will join The Earthshot Prize in Cape Town, South Africa this November to spotlight inspiring environmental solutions to repair and regenerate the pl…
Africa: Sci-Fi, Folklore, and Faith – Korede Azeez’s Unique Lens As a Nigerian Muslim Filmmaker
[African Arguments] Korede Azeez is one of the Nigeria’s most prolific breakout filmmakers. Her journey sheds light on the broader landscape of women in Nigeria’s expanding film industry.
Africa: Idris Elba to Build Film Studios in Africa, Says Move is ‘Going to Happen’
[allAfrica] Idris Elba has announced plans to relocate to Africa within the next decade, to fuel the growth of the continent’s booming film industry.
Africa: Some People Love to Scare Themselves in an Already Scary World – Here’s the Psychology of Why
[The Conversation Africa] Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at our…
Africa: If Your Child Is Watching TV and Playing Online Games, You Should Do It With Them – Here’s Why
[The Conversation Africa] Young children spend a lot of time using screens: watching television, playing on touchscreen apps, or Facetiming with grandparents. In fact, research on global screen time guidelines has found that around 75% of children aged…
Africa: Malam, an Artist Taking the Idea of a ‘Collection’ to a New Level
[RFI] Made up of hundreds of discarded toys, household items, broken cables and bits of plastic, Cameroonian artist Malam’s giant head-shaped sculptures are deceptively playful. Invited to the Also Known as Africa contemporary art and design fair (AKAA…
Africa: Ibrahim Maalouf Embraces the World
[Afropop] Ibrahim Maalouf is shape-shifting Renaissance man. A master of the quarter-tone trumpet, a modified version of the instrument capable of playing Arabic scales (maqamat), Maalouf has performed and recorded classical music, jazz, experimental w…
Africa: Did the Tumaini Initiative Exceed Its Mandate?
[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debat…
Africa: Destruction of Libraries and Archives Is a Form of Book-Burning and Erasing History and Memory
[Daily Maverick] Libraries are not merely places that keep books by George Eliot, Charles Dickens or Joseph Conrad: they are repositories of written records of South African society over centuries – and over the past three decades.
Africa: Wretched of the Earth Has Been Translated Into South Africa’s Zulu Language – Why Frantz Fanon’s Revolutionary Book Still Matters
[The Conversation Africa] Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is …