Novelist Helen Oyeyemi considers how the future lies in reclaiming the past’s stories
The Taxi Diaries
Ten years on from South Africa’s first democratic elections, Hedley Twidle has been researching the definitive biography of Cape Town’s Main Road.
The King Of African Counterculture
Brooklyn-based curator, Trevor Schoonmaker takes a look at the legacy of the revolutionary Fela Kuti.
What The Chocolate Industry Does Not Want You To Know
The pictures of Moussa Doumbia show an emaciated seventeen-year-old. He has wounds from being struck across his back, big scars. He looks at the camera, exhausted, humiliated.
Africa On Your Doorstep
Africa 05 aims to add a cultural component to the political momentum and focus that will be placed on Africa when the UK takes over the presidency and chairmanship of the European Union and the G8 this year.
A Keene Valley Yankee in Liberia
Caleb Klaces reviews The Darling, by Russell Banks