“As a country, we would like to thank you” | Why Elaine is transforming South Africa’s R&B landscape
Being used to good music from South Africa, Ndivhuwo Elaine Mukheli, known professionally as Elaine caught seemingly everyone unprepared in 2019, when she burst into the scene wi..
These six albums will spice up your summer 2020
Arca, KiCk i
Arca has never held back over the years, and — luckily for us — not just musically speaking. Unapologetically defying heteronormative ideas and societal constrain..
Àsìkò’s visual representation of emotions | The personal becomes universal
Ade Okelarin is the London-born Lagos bred artist who goes by the name Àsìkò. Using photography, mixed media and film, his works explore complex, multidimensional themes such as ..
‘Black is King’ | Beyoncé reverses colonial stereotypes and shows Black Americans’ broken dreams
One year after the release of the remake of The Lion King (Jon Favreau, 2019), Disney and Parkwood Entertainment have recently released Beyoncé’s new visual album, Black is King…
‘Fight’ | Gilone’s debut single is a call to stay true to one’s self
Gilone has a velvet voice that envelopes you like a blanket made of the softest feathers. It is a journey to the world of senses and emotions. Hers is a love poem for those who f..
In conversation with Enfant Précoce | From Parisian museums, to dance, to tatoo art
He was 24 years old when he started painting. His name is Francis Essoua Kalu, but people shall probably remember him as Enfant Précoce. He’s the nephew of the Cameroonian plasti..
‘Dancing at Dusk’ | 38 dancers from 14 African countries restage Pina Bausch’s ‘The Rite of Spring’
A beach of white sand. The light bleaching from the sky. A girl lying on a red cloth. An eerie bassoon piercing the silence. This is the way in which audiences get their first gl..
A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) | Bristol’s Edward Colston Statue replaced by the statue of a protester
When Bristol-based stylist Jen Reid heard about a Black Lives Matter protest happening in her city on June 7, she wasn’t sure about going, as she takes care of aging parents and ..
‘Black Venus’ is the film exposing the ruthlessness of the colonial gaze
Born on 29th December 1789, she was called the Hottentot Venus, but her name was Sawtche, better known as Saartjie Baartman. Object of all kind of fantasies and imagination due t..
Silvia Rosi is inverting the classic West African studio portrait to retell her family’s history
At first, an image by the London-based Italian-Togolaise artist Silvia Rosi might strike the viewer as eerily familiar, and yet somehow fresh: vintage and thoroughly contemporary..