During the coronavirus pandemic the Jerusalema dance challenge enacted a way for communities to connect - repetitive enough to be picked up and varied enough to tease.
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Young Nigerians are protesting bad governance and police brutality. Where is the music to assist them?
As more comes to light about the money-making tactics of social media platforms we need to reevaluate our relationship with them.
A realignment is needed as the current systems have lost the competence to midwife a new nation out of the formative experiences of the last 25 years.
For young Nigerian protesters on social media and on the streets, #ENDSARS is as much an expression of a will to modernity as it is a yearning to be treated with dignity.
Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
Johannesburg is not the most anxious or dangerous city in the world, but its global reputation, history and architecture make it a valuable site for thinking about how anxiety structures our lives.
Two striking images - from the 1940s and the 1960s - help reveal the rich but still emerging history of street photography in the country.
Religion has often been a key motivation for philanthropy and economic fairness. Africans in the diaspora champion this.
From red berets to full-on cosplaying, leaders across the continent have a robust relationship with fashion.
Ghana’s museums can improve visitor numbers by paying attention to customer satisfaction.
Cosmetics companies have agreed to remove racially offensive language from their skin products - but history, in Kenya and South Africa, shows they’ve done the same before.
If we learn from COVID-19, there are three key areas to tackle to make cities safer from outbreaks of future infectious diseases.
In each of his novels, he explored questions that shifted South Africa’s cultural debates, especially about memory and race.
The patterns of colonial spatial violence that played out in Ghanaian cities echo around the world.
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
The artist’s body of work, through its very public focus on queer masculinity, offers alternative ways of thinking about what being a man is.
Images of white Namibian farmers and their workers and a collection of portraits by travelling black photographers form part of the early archive.
Hundreds of handwritten letters found in an archive have revealed the real import of the writer’s enduring influence.
The gift of his images lies in their depiction of the social worlds that apartheid sought to destroy, but that live on through the photographs.
The live streaming of music events online is full of potential – but right now few artists or hosting venues are earning much from it.
Students feel a generational responsibility to challenge racial stereotypes, a study finds.
Big Brother Naija continues to dominate cultural conversations among African youth. Is this Nigeria’s strongest PR move?
Her new book “This Mournable Body” was announced as a Booker Prize contender just days before her arrest for protesting against a government clampdown.
How do elements of Fela Kuti’s music get reproduced by today’s pop musicians?