Share For those of you in Manhattan, The NY African Film Festival is back for its 17th year. From April 14, it will be at Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies and finishes at the end of May. It will no doubt be worth checking out as well as a great opportunity to see what [...]
Share Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer who made a book of photos called Nollywood. It was released in 2009. He is now exhibiting in Manhattan, at the Yossi Milo gallery. For those of you are don’t know, Nollywood is Nigeria’s film industry. It’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood [...]
Share Fellow writer Matilda Egere-Cooper put me on to this David Adjaye exhibition that’s currently on in London at the Design Museum. For those of who you don’t know, Adjaye is a leading British-Ghanian architect who was born in Dar-es-Salaam. It’s called Urban Africa and is “a photographic journey through key cities in Africa”. I haven’t [...]
Share I haven’t posted for a while… but I couldn’t not post today. Michael Jackson’s impact will probably only really hit home now, posthumously. But this is the man who was the first ever black person to be played on MTV, in the days when MTV wouldn’t play black music. This is the man who [...]
