Friday 17 April 2026
Culture
Culture
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Emerging from slavery and displacement, Gnawa music transforms rhythm and ritual into a living archive. Its sound carries history, survival, and collective memory across generations.
Emerging from slavery and displacement, Gnawa music transforms rhythm and ritual into a living archive. Its sound carries history, survival, and collective memory across generations.
Thoughts
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The continent’s struggle is not about broken institutions but a failed model of ‘auto-colonisation’ where elites treat citizens as subjects.
The continent’s struggle is not about broken institutions but a failed model of ‘auto-colonisation’ where elites treat citizens as subjects.
Culture
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The Amazigh New Year unfolds as a language spoken by land, labor, and memory rather than by numbers. Across North Africa, Iyennayer renews an ancient contract between people, soil, and time.
The Amazigh New Year unfolds as a language spoken by land, labor, and memory rather than by numbers. Across North Africa, Iyennayer renews an ancient contract between people, soil, and time.
Art
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In her music, Fadwa Farid turns pain into rhythm and memory into resistance.
Her songs insist that art belongs to the people and that peace remains its deepest calling.
In her music, Fadwa Farid turns pain into rhythm and memory into resistance.
Her songs insist that art belongs to the people and that peace remains its deepest calling.
Culture
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In Kampala, Nafeer Al-Aghani transformed song, poetry, and visual art into a shared act of listening amid Sudan’s war. Beyond performance, the evening became a temporary homeland where memory, exile, and hope rehearsed the possibility of peace.
In Kampala, Nafeer Al-Aghani transformed song, poetry, and visual art into a shared act of listening amid Sudan’s war. Beyond performance, the evening became a temporary homeland where memory, exile, and hope rehearsed the possibility of peace.
Culture
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Forced into exile by war at home, Sudan’s national team turned instability into resolve. Against all odds, they carried East Africa back onto the AFCON stage and into the knockout rounds.
Forced into exile by war at home, Sudan’s national team turned instability into resolve. Against all odds, they carried East Africa back onto the AFCON stage and into the knockout rounds.
Culture
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How a familiar African expression was transformed into a global promise of comfort, stripped of its social and political roots. A meditation on emotion, power, and what the world expects Africa to give, but never to demand.
How a familiar African expression was transformed into a global promise of comfort, stripped of its social and political roots. A meditation on emotion, power, and what the world expects Africa to give, but never to demand.
Culture
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A dispatch from Benin City tells the unfinished story of the Museum of West African Art.
A dispatch from Benin City tells the unfinished story of the Museum of West African Art.
Culture
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From overnight fame to handcuffs, TikTok creators are testing the limits of expression in one of Africa’s most conservative societies. The backlash reveals not just discomfort with content, but fear of a generation rewriting the rules.
From overnight fame to handcuffs, TikTok creators are testing the limits of expression in one of Africa’s most conservative societies. The backlash reveals not just discomfort with content, but fear of a generation rewriting the rules.
Thoughts
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After a friend is killed in a car crash on the outskirts of Hargeisa, Abdalla Abdirahman traces how crumbling infrastructure, unsafe vehicles, weak enforcement, and slow emergency care have made Somaliland’s roads a daily, grinding emergency.
After a friend is killed in a car crash on the outskirts of Hargeisa, Abdalla Abdirahman traces how crumbling infrastructure, unsafe vehicles, weak enforcement, and slow emergency care have made Somaliland’s roads a daily, grinding emergency.
