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We Love This New Art Fair in Copenhagen
By Claude Grunitzky
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14 October, 2021
These New Perspectives on Africa Will Open Your Mind...
5 October, 2021
The Performance Artist Speaking Up For Africa’s Outcasts...
20 September, 2021
The Somali Creative Using Art As a Weapon...
23 August, 2021
Meet the Woman Who Had the Courage to Write About Intimate Violence...
5 August, 2021
This Photo Exhibition is a Must-See...
3 August, 2021
The Science-Fiction Author Reaching For The Stars
By Bakang Akoonyatse
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Entertainment

This Tunisian Singer Has Just Released Her Lockdown Recordings
It's hard to believe that it's been nearly ten years since the world watched the events of the...
By Claude Grunitzky
Sharing African Stories Online Just Got Easier...
16 October, 2020
Meet America’s Favorite Yoruba Tech Soul Pioneer...
12 October, 2020
This 4th of July Livestream Will Celebrate the Friendship Between Africa and Ame...
2 July, 2020
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Art

We Love This New Art Fair in Copenhagen
By Claude Grunitzky
1-54 London is Celebrating 10 Years of Contemporary African Art
By Team TRUE
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Film

Why You Should Attend This Online Summit
The 2020 Future Summit, which starts at 5am EST, 12pm EAT, on Thursday, October 1st, is a virtual gathering of...
By Team TRUE
Why This New Film Is Challenging Old Notions of Representation...
26 May, 2020
Meet the creator of this year’s best reviewed film...
19 April, 2019
Can Black Panther Heal the Wounds of African Descendants?...
26 February, 2018
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Photography

The Somali Creative Using Art As a Weapon
Most people know Somalia for its decades-long civil war. As a result of the conflict and instability, many citizens...
By Claude Grunitzky
This Photo Exhibition is a Must-See...
3 August, 2021
Sharing African Stories Online Just Got Easier...
16 October, 2020
This Senegalese Photographer is Showing Some of His Best Work in Japan...
6 October, 2020
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Design

Why I Decided To Launch a Toy Company For Black Girls
I launched this company after an interesting conversation I had while having a drink with a family member of a...
By Susette Adjoa Nichols
Meet the Founder of the Coolest Parisian African Concept Store...
15 September, 2020
Why Studio 189’s fashions never disappoint...
26 September, 2019
A Design Life with Peter Mabeo...
6 August, 2018
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Words

Meet the Woman Who Had the Courage to Write About Intimate Violence
Soon after she started dating Eric Schneiderman, the powerful attorney general of New York State, Tanya Selvaratnam noticed a troubling...
By Claude Grunitzky
The Science-Fiction Author Reaching For The Stars...
19 July, 2021
We Interviewed Nigerian Novelist Ben Okri About a New Book on the Climate Crisis...
25 February, 2021
We Interviewed Scottish Actress Freya Mavor About a New Book on the Climate Cris...
25 February, 2021
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Food

Why you need to support this Harlem restaurant right now
COVID-19 has brought death to more than 15,000 New Yorkers over the past two months, but it has...
By Claude Grunitzky
How Olivier Palazzo is reinventing the culinary experience, one dish at a time...
29 June, 2018
ROFLM needs your help to feed schoolchildren across Ghana...
25 September, 2017
Senegal enters Ghana and Nigeria Jollof War...
4 April, 2017
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