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 […]
Roger and Me
Akin Adesokan writes in exaltation of the game of tennis, the sheer artistry of arguably its greatest and most storied male player and his 24 tricks of the forehand. With his second-round loss to an unknown Ukrainian player in this year’s Wimbledon, tennis great Roger Federer missed reaching the quarter-finals of a grand slam event […]
Close encounters at the Florida 1000
Tony Mochama goes galactic for a little bump and grind, gives a nod to the Nairobi Flesh Exchange and discovers a place where the cliché of the “sweet nothing” plays out in real time to real tunes as the raunch of a real world. To get to Florida 1000, you don’t take a time capsule […]
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 […]
A Pan African Circle of Artists
By Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi In June 1991, Krydz Ikwuemesi, then a third-year art student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, convened a meeting of fellow students and faculty in the arts department to discuss the formation of an organisation to be called the Pan African Circle of Artists (PACA). PACA’s intents were to: create and exhibit art; […]