Arts & Books

Singers and players of instruments have stepped up to the plate to support political leaders.

Just as the dust in Malawi is settling from the excitement of The Zomba Prison Bandearning the first ever Grammy nomination for th

Several of my son’s friends organized a small birthday celebration for him several years ago. They invited me to hang out with them and I thought I’d bring a couple of DVDs for the occasion.

In the early 1970s, one of the most pleasant drinking places in Accra was the terrace bar of the Continental Hotel. It was a very long terrace that overlooked, at the far end of the hotel, a bubbling mass of foamy water thrown into the air by the radiators of the cooling system.

I confess, I am a culturally alienated, old, disconnected 1960s and ‘70s radical trying to live and struggle for revolutionary change in a world that might have passed me by, because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way pro

This longread looks back at the past 130 years of African history. The period between 1885 and 1950 was the period of colonisation. The period between 1950 and 2015 was a period of decolonisation and independence.

“It was made clear that this “New Negro Movement" represented a breaking away of the Negro masses from the grip of old-time leaders….”
HUBERT H. HARRISON
The Voice, July 4, 1917

‘A Man of the People’ (hereinafter, AMP) is published in early January 1966.

The region most devastated by 2014’s Ebola outbreak — a tragedy that officially killed more than eleven thousand innocent men, women, and children in a matter of months — bears the mark of colonialism and neocolonialism.

PREAMBLE