MAMA EP | Muzi talks stages of grief and making Pan-African electronica
Muzi, the 29-year-old South African musician-producer making waves across continents was dubbed “golden boy” when he entered the scene for the lightness and funk of his music. Ho..
Monira Al Qadiri on the end of oil and documenting petro-culture for a post-oil world
Born in Senegal, educated in Japan and currently based in Germany, Kuwaiti visual artist Monira al Qadiri came of age during the rapid transformation of Kuwait from one of the wo..
“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..
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..
‘Centropy’ | Deana Lawson and Black Image Matters
There are at least two liminal frames that offer themselves when looking at images of Black people. The first is that on a fundamental level, images generally and images of Black..
‘Sondela Forever’ | Muzi drops his most ethereal offering yet
In the opening scene of Sondela Forever, it is hard to catch the walking man in the wide frame. Once-green grass, now the colour of hay although it is still growing, stretches ou..
Ìrìn Journal is the new independent magazine bringing African cities, travel, and culture to print
As an independent print magazine enthusiast, it is often baffling what folks will make mags about. There are indie mags about literally everything, including Rugby, Plantain, Eas..
Flee’s latest project revisits Tarantism as a global aesthetic
If all we had was the written word, the ephemeral mysticism of rituals would be completely lost on us. We would run out adjectives faster than the performers of a ritual — in the..
Andy S | “I’m not a conscious artist, I‘m just being honest”
One of Ivory Coast’s finest rising rappers is 22 years of age, has a fresh new EP out and didn’t exactly dream of becoming a rapper growing up. In fact, her sights were set entir..
‘B_U : Session 1’ | This Pan-African duo’s debut has been a decade in the making
‘Good things take time’ is in many ways a (re)tired cliché, time being the one thing that nobody seems to have—or make—these days. This is why a new tape from Johannesburg-based ..