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Benin City | A unifying rainbow of music, spoken word and city life

As much as noisy, chaotic and increasingly gentrified, big cities all over the world are cauldrons of creativity, diversified bustling interlinked communities generating ideas, c..

Barber Shop Chronicles | Inua Ellams disentangles the nuances of Black Masculinity in Play

While the Barbershop movie series are classics and the relevance of the barbershop for black masculinity is duly celebrated in the USA, the manner in which black men in Europe an..

KOKOKO! | The soundtrack of Kinshasa’s tomorrow live at Linecheck

Energy, colours, psychedelia, DIY instruments, originality and tons of talent: here are KOKOKO!

Led by Débruit, the French producer and musical explorer that we all got to kno..

Ariwo | The Cuban-Iranian electronic fusion live at Linecheck

Two years ago while surfing on the net, I bumped into a Kickstarter campaign raising funds for the first Afro-Cuban and Electronic Music Festival in Santiago de Cuba, Manana fest..

Little Dragon | On the power of music, creativity and human relationships

In our messed-up contemporary global music scene, pop stars come and go and both music and artists are made and forgotten at such speed, it’s sometimes startling to hear that you..

Galerie Number 8 celebrates its first anniversary at AKAA – Also Known As Africa

It’s only a few days until the opening of Akaa – Also Knonw As Africa – the first and only art fair in France devoted to contemporary art and design from Africa. There’s great ex..

Black Girl Festival | The first festival dedicated to black British female creativity is on!

What does it mean to be a black girl in the UK nowadays? How to deal with the implications resulting from the cultural diversity and lack of representation of black women of all ..

Roots Manuva | In conversation with the “Urban voice of Britain”

Chilling out with his crew, Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva chats and dances around while DJ Snuff scratches 90s hip-hop vinyls. We are at Archspace, in Hackney (London), and the r..

Sufyvn | The Sudanese electronic producer exploring the new frontiers of IDM

The cultural, artistic and social narratives of distant countries such as Sudan are always so inaccurate and imbued with a post-colonial notch that it is very easy to get the wro..

Black Movie Summer | Pascal Beugré Tellier nous parle de ‘Out of Body’

C’est à coups de fourchette dans son délicieux crumble fait maison que je me retrouve enfin en tête à tête avec Pascal Beugré Tellier. Danseur et chorégraphe (je vous l’ai presen..