Laamb and lutteur | Dreams and hopes
You have probably been in this situation: you’re with a group of friends reminiscing about professional wrestling from the 80s and early 90s and suddenly you’re back, thinking ab..
Crumbs | Ethiopia’s First feature length post-apocalyptic sci-film
Every time I watch a sci-fi, apocalyptic movie I wonder “why does always it happen in the States? Why does the entire movie start and end there? Where are the small European, Afr..
Grace Wales Bonner | Heritage and history on the runway
Grace Wales Bonner’s BA graduate collection transports you back to 1970s Lagos, even if you weren’t alive yet; it wraps you in pink mohair so soft you could sleep in it, but you’..
Sneaker Pawn Shop | The world’s first sneaker pawn shop
Who else could come up with the idea of selling his sneakers to increase his weekly allowance, making it on the Forbes 30 under 30 list? Chase Reed, a 16-year-old Harlem high sch..
YZ raconte Amazone | J’ai cherché les guerrières du passé pour parler à celles du futur
Dans l’actuel Bénin, pendant la première guerre franco-dahoméenne dans les années 1890, il y avait un régiment de femmes combattantes, les Amazones de Dahomey, femmes protégée pa..
Estère | The queen of electric blue witch hop
Are you passionate music experts with an in-depth knowledge of all musical genres but you cannot remember any singer’s name, song or sound that draws inspiration from electric bl..
The Pearl of Africa | Being trasgender in Uganda
It was a week after the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act had passed (also called “Kill the Gays bill” in the western mainstream media due to the originally proposed death penalty cl..
Agender | The third sex on display
In the beginning it was Germany. Officially.
On 1 November, 2013, the progressive and open-minded Germany became one of the first countries in the world – the first one in Europ..
Scorpion Dagger | Rethinking the Renaissance through GIFs
“Studying Giotto is like studying Dante. For this reason, art history will return to schools in an important way.”
So said Dario Franceschini, the Italian Minister of Culture an..
Spoek Mathambo and his Fantasma
Spoek Mathambo, the prince of Township Tech, a music genre that is rocking the South African and international electronic music scene, released his new brand project, Fantasma, a..