The African Lens
A space for exploring Africa through its cultures, histories, people, and stories.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 27 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Why "Africa" does not exist (and why that’s good news)
In the everyday lexicon of international media, Western diplomacy, and development discourse, there exists a convenient shortcut: flattening 54 sovereign nations, over 1.5 billion people, and roughly 2,000 spoken languages into a single wor...
Africa doesn't just need tech and dams. It needs poetic sovereignty.
If you listen to the dominant global narrative about African development, the prescription is always hyper-utilitarian. More roads. More power grids. More digital connectivity. More natural resource extraction.
These are, of course, essent...
The bold, multidimensional world of Afro-Modernism in Art
If you took a standard Art History 101 course anywhere in the Western world, you likely learned a very specific, sanitized story about modernism.
You were told that in the early 20th century, European geniuses like Picasso, Matisse, and Br...
Contemporary african art in 2026/2027 : Key curatorial trends & 4 artists to program
Today, the commercial African art market and its diaspora are no longer lagging behind the rest of the world in the domain of international art fairsthey are drawing their own narratives, materialities, and mediation models.
As for institu...
How to live with the rage of african history ?
There exists a distinct instant—a definitive, soundless fracture—when the accumulated burden of historical events settles upon your consciousness with full force for the initial time.
For certain individuals, this occurs within a libra...
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