The Music Never Ends In Mali
Oumou Sangare is a grand woman. The tips of her fingers are colored in black and red dye. She wears those boubou gowns with the wide necklines that fall over […]
Category Archives: Art
African Superheroes
You Don’t Have To Be White To Save The World I borrowed the title of this post, “African Superheroes, You Don’t Have To Be White To Save The […]
The Afrofuturism of Fabrice Monteiro
The Afrofuturism of Fabrice Monteiro There are certain depictions of African life we in the West are all too accustomed to seeing: Images of poverty, violence and corruption conjure a […]
Senegalese Graffiti Artist Leaving a Fearless Mark
Senegalese graffiti artist Dieynaba Sidibe is challenging views on women’s roles and calling for equality, one spray-paint can at a time. Growing up in Senegal’s capital of Dakar, Dieynaba Sidibe […]
Sounds of Kinshasa
Sounds of Kinshasa: music, dance and culture are a lifeline in Congo The Congolese have long been neglected by those in power, doing what they can to get by in […]
Yoruba Deities Re-visited
Photographer and Noire 3000 Studios CEO, James Lewis’s presents: The Orisha Experience. This is his photography collection of artistic interpretation of Yoruba deities James C. Lewis James C. Lewis James […]
The Gaze On Black Bodies
For her exhibition “Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography”, Ayana V Jackson turns to the archives to touch on the representation of black bodies. The flyers pasted around the cobbled streets […]
Tanzania’s Booty Dance
I don’t like to call it that, “a booty” dance, but it got your attention. I’m presently in Tanzania as part of a reporting fellowship and I was talking to […]
The Way You Make Me Feel: My Ode To Highlife
He came close, like danger. And nearly stole my heart, nearly snatched it out of its pulsating cavity. But he didn’t use his hands. He used the lazy groans of […]
Njideka Akunyili: A Nigerian Visual Artist
“My art addresses my internal tension between my deep love for Nigeria, my country of birth, and my strong appreciation for Western culture, which has profoundly influenced both my life […]
