Guardian Africa network
Sapeurs in the boxing ring in Fredy Massamba’s Nkembo video
From the Guinness advert to to music videos, Congo’s well-dressed Sapeurs are in demand, reports African Hip Hop
Celebrity disaster relief - what not to do
When Downton Abbey’s Lady Cora went to Sierra Leone, it turned into a PR disaster. Here’s some advice to charities
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Just a slip of the tongue – fiction
A short story by South Sudanese writer David Lukudu, first published on Warscapes -
Fantasy Hollywood: restaging classic films with black models
When two Senegalese photographers messed with some very familiar screen moments, they were taken aback by the racial dimension to the response, says Missla Libsekal
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We're here, we're queer, we're African
Anti-gay laws that suggest homosexuality is not part of African culture present a very Victorian view of the continent, says Patrick Gathara
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- Mamphela Ramphele may not be the electoral elixir needed to beat the ANC
- Africa is not a country
- If western journalists get Africa wrong, who gets it right?
- South Sudan: are western journalists getting it wrong?
- South Sudan: diary of a crisis
- 12 Years a Slave fails to represent black resistance to enslavement
- Was South Sudan a mistake?
- Nigerians turn on comic for rape 'joke'
Why Cameron should meet Mugabe