Wednesday 19 August 2026
Culture
Culture
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From imperial rule to fascist occupation, Haile Gerima has made cinema a battleground over memory and truth. His latest work renews a lifelong struggle to decolonize the screen and restore Ethiopia to its own image.
From imperial rule to fascist occupation, Haile Gerima has made cinema a battleground over memory and truth. His latest work renews a lifelong struggle to decolonize the screen and restore Ethiopia to its own image.
Thoughts
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A redevelopment project in Nairobi’s Ngara district promises revival—but raises deeper questions about capital, memory, and who has the right to shape the city.
A redevelopment project in Nairobi’s Ngara district promises revival—but raises deeper questions about capital, memory, and who has the right to shape the city.
Art
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More than a global pop wave, Afrobeats has become a language of identity shaped by the city, the diaspora, and digital circulation. Between rhythm and image, market and meaning, it repositions Africa as a producer of culture rather than a subject of nostalgia or crisis.
More than a global pop wave, Afrobeats has become a language of identity shaped by the city, the diaspora, and digital circulation. Between rhythm and image, market and meaning, it repositions Africa as a producer of culture rather than a subject of nostalgia or crisis.
Culture
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Meja Mwangi wrote from the margins, giving voice to urban poverty, disillusionment, and post-independence Kenya without courting fame. His death invites a reckoning with how Africa remembers its writers and how many are only truly seen after they are gone.
Meja Mwangi wrote from the margins, giving voice to urban poverty, disillusionment, and post-independence Kenya without courting fame. His death invites a reckoning with how Africa remembers its writers and how many are only truly seen after they are gone.
Thoughts
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iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.
iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.
Culture
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Through one novel, two distant wars echo each other, exposing how hunger, fear, and internal division follow the same script across continents.
Through one novel, two distant wars echo each other, exposing how hunger, fear, and internal division follow the same script across continents.
Culture
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As African fiction moved from rural worlds to urban centers, place began to reshape not just stories, but the form of the novel itself.
As African fiction moved from rural worlds to urban centers, place began to reshape not just stories, but the form of the novel itself.
Culture
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David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.
David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.
Culture
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From colonial discipline to chosen expression, Sali Ali delves into how dress became a site where African bodies reclaim meaning, history, and agency.
From colonial discipline to chosen expression, Sali Ali delves into how dress became a site where African bodies reclaim meaning, history, and agency.
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.
