The artist’s work is key to understanding Congolese culture in the last two decades.
Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji’s work allows us to revisit the DRC’s past and explore how art can help us understand decolonisation.
Supporters of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema wave during a rally in Mwanza.
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After years of censorship, opposition parties have to – all at once – rejoin public debates, reorganise and remotivate demoralised supporters.
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie after a reading of her book ‘Americanah’ in Lagos in 2013.
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There is a thriving counter-current of transnational African literary life that confounds rather than caters to an international taste for “digestible” fiction.