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Africa

Beyond images of war: Sammy Baloji’s work captures DR Congo’s vibrant arts and culture, challenging western views

      By Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, University of Warwick   The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is all too often associated with violent conflict, at the expense of its positive aspects. Reports on this huge country, the second largest in Africa after Algeria, and nearly twice the size of South Africa, tend to overlook its intellectual and artistic vibrancy. My research has focused on this part of the continent. This […]

todayApril 16, 2024 10

Africa

Tunisia’s El Kef city is rich in heritage: centuries of cultural mixing give it a distinct identity

    By Majdi Faleh, Nottingham Trent University; Asma Gharbi, Université de Carthage, and Nourchen Ben Fatma, Université de Carthage   El Kef is a city built into the southern face of Jebel Dyr mountain, which is linked to the High Atlas mountains in the north-western region of Tunisia that borders on Algeria. The breeze that sweeps off the mountain and through the city’s streets offers relief from the hot […]

todayApril 9, 2024 24

Africa

What are Sabaki languages? How people formed ethnic groups along the coast of east Africa

    By Daren Ray, Brigham Young University     A new book called Ethnicity, Identity and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa tracks the history of the coastal communities of east Africa and how the Sabaki family of Bantu languages was formed, shaped in part by the sea and the arrival of visitors from other shores and within the continent. We asked historian Daren Ray to tell us […]

todayFebruary 20, 2024 18

Africa

The San people of southern Africa: where ethics codes for researching indigenous people could fail them

    By Stasja Koot, Wageningen University   There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, emphasised the colonial character of much research. She warned that it brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation. Well into the 20th century, researchers depicted groups like the […]

todayFebruary 13, 2024 11

Entertainment

100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power

  By Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape; Christina Chan-Meetoo, University of Mauritius; Jacinta Mwende Maweu, University of Nairobi; Marissa J. Moorman, Indiana University; Modestus Fosu, Ghana Institute of Journalism, and Stanley Tsarwe, University of Namibia   Radio is thriving across Africa. Exact figures are difficult to come by because audience research differs across countries. But studies estimate radio listenership to be between 60% and 80% of the continent’s […]

todayFebruary 13, 2024 32

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