Over the past 11 months I have been working to develop a children’s book called, Yeshialem Learns About Fistula, which addresses a maternal health condition kno...
Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani – A Review
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Don’t Copy, Create: On Fifteen Afropolitan Vibes Magazine Covers
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Mbongwana Star’s gig in Oval Space on the Sunday night after Halloween was packed; the night was all the more vibrant courtesy of a resilient crowd: they weren’...
Interview: Sembene! director Samba Gadjigo on preserving the legacy of the ‘father of African cinema’
As co-director of Sembene! – the acclaimed new document...
It’s hard to believe it, but Film Africa, the annual film festival run by the Royal African Society, is now in its fifth year. It may be coming of age, but its ...
With Film Africa 2015 just around the corner, we've created a list of the 10 must- see films to watch across 10 days of vibrant and diverse African c...
In the lead up to the British Library’s Exhibition West Africa: Word Symbol, Song, Nana Ocran sat down with writer and cultural historian Gus Casely-H...
Peter Wiggins meets Emmanuel Jal, the Sudanese hip-hop star.
“I am still a soldier. But now my weapon is music.”
Emmanuel Jal was a child when the second...
"Word, Symbol, Song - The British Library's first major exhibition of it's African collections opens today; with a focus on West Africa's vibrant literary herit...