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Baloji tackles skin bleaching in short film ‘Never Look At The Sun’
Imagine a woman facing a mirror, surrounded by beauty items; a powerful, common image. It is ritualised: the mirror is a women’s best friend and worst enemy at the same time. Ref..
Broken hearts, broken souls in Maíra Bühler’s ‘Let it burn’
There is so much prejudice revolving around drug addicts, especially around crack cocaine users. Lost, hopeless and potentially dangerous, we rarely see them for who they are, hu..
‘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…
‘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..
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..
Desire | Desire Marea channels the divine inside us in self-titled debut album
The multi-disciplinary artist Desire Marea, best known as one half of the South African queer performance art duo FAKA, has just released his solo self-titled debut album, Desire..
‘Human Archipelago’ | Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh explore notions of hospitality in latest photo book
The word ‘hospitality’ sounds a bit old-fashioned. In a globaliSed world where every (Easy) jetsetter with the right passport, outfit and vocabulary can be a ‘local’ anywhere, th..
Vagabon leaps into the electronic realm in her second self-titled LP
From her safe magic bubble, Laetitia Tamko, aka Vagabon, invites us all to find ourselves in this world by taking us on a stroll in her mesmerising sonic universe in the new self..
Review | ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’
On spotting a lone copy of Afropean on the shelves of one of those good bookstores we are told we should support, I was surprised that the publisher had signed off on what I thou..