Gospel Christian Porn Rap
Fucking with the puritanical social mores that pervade the world’s most religious country is the clear and conscious intent of Ghana’s popular and controversial hip-hop duo, the clever FOKN Bois, writes Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah M3nsa and Wanlov the Kubolor are the FOKN Bois: controversial, unapologetic and boldly venturing into territories that other Ghanaian musicians stay […]
Invisible Borders
By Emmanuel Iduma Founded in 2009 by a group of Nigerian photographers led by Emeka Okereke, Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers is primarily known for its ambitious exploratory crossings of African borders by road. I was invited in 2011 and 2012 to join the third and fourth iterations of the road trip, from Lagos to Addis […]
The Nigerian Art of Patronage
Deji Toye looks at the legacy of arts funding in Nigeria and questions whether the longstanding trend of patronage over policy remains in the interests of the benefactors rather than the creators of the works or the wider public audience. George Ufot had a problem, which did not start as one, but now was. He […]
Mining the Biennale
In late 2012, two contemporary art exhibitions opened in the same country, with the same themes and bearing the same title. Cédric Vincent* exposes the tangled web of intrigue, political rhetoric, trash talk and cyber manipulations that caused all the chaos at both Benin biennales. *translated by Dominique Malaquais Everything was looking good for the […]
Love and Learning Under the World Bank
Stacy Hardy recounts seventeen stories of the hierarchies, the anti-heroes, the hard knocks and the histrionics that have been visited upon universities as a result of decades of decidedly imperialist structural adjustment. Additional research by Oddveig Nicole Sarmiento. 1. At a meeting of African university vice chancellors held in Harare in 1986, a World Bank […]