Wanuri Kahiu has been busy. The Kenyan film director has been putting work since the critical success of her Focus Features Africa First short film Pumzi. Last month she gave a talk on the movie and Afrofuturism at NYC’s Parsons The New School of Design. We had to snatch her up to discuss her own “futurism”! She talks to us about delving into adaptation screenwriting for the Nnedi Orokafor penned Who [...]
Critics lamented the lack of satire on South African television, while nostalgics continued to hope for the return of the short-lived cult comedy series, the Pure Monate Show. And then along came Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola. A veteran before the age of thirty, Gola’s satirical bulletin had South Africans laughing at the antics of local and international politicians. In between the laughs there were also aha moments as [...]
Lucky was pulling off Afrikaans alter-egos years before James Phillips and decades before Die Antwoord. You’d know that if you were up on this amazing 80s and 90s retro blog dedicated to the care-free genre of the time bubble gum pop. We love it!
A rousing success at the 2011 Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, ‘Pariah’ is the feature-length expansion of writer/director Dee Rees’ award-winning 2007 short film ‘Pariah’. Spike Lee is among the feature’s executive producers. Luso Mnthali spoke to Dee
“I love the fact that [African fashion] is not afraid to be itself. It’s very bold and brave,” says Arise Magazine editor Helen Jennings on her new book, ‘New African Fashion.’
There are so many reasons to heart Nigerian-American designer duo, Darlene and Lizzy Okpo…
Get familiar with South African afro-soul singer Bongeziwe Mabandla, who just debuted his new video on MTV Base.
Is Viva Riva director Djo Tunda Wa Munga Africa’s Tarantino? Lynsey Chutel spoke to the man behind the most exciting African film out now. Read the interview and win copies of the cult classic in the making
Here are 5 things to know about the new Miss Universe, Leila Lopes from Angola.
Can you imagine a Sengalese-American Liz Lemmon running 30 Rock? Indie filmmaker Issa-Rae has tapped into the dialogue of millions of black women, creating, writing, directing, producing and starring in the huge viral success that is The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.
