Biography

Biography

Pops Mohamed mixed old and new to reinvent South African music

An orbituary By Gwen Ansell Pops Mohamed is dead: He was committed to a South African musical identity, Ismail Mohamed-Jan – better known by South African jazz...

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe: the philosopher who explored what decolonised African thought might look like

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe was one of the most influential African thinkers of the 20th century. He showed that Africa was often imagined as a void to...

Mozambique: the opposition leader returns home after post-election turmoil

By Luca Bussotti When people watched political debates on Soico TV, one of the most watched private channels in Mozambique, around 2010, they often saw a...

Rashid Vally: South African visionary whose indie record labels shaped the jazz scene

By Gwen Ansell Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in terms of...

An astute story teller about a life of triumphs, tragedies and cautionary tales of musicians like Fela Kuti  

By Alaba Ilesanmi Rikki Stein, born into a regular, middle-class home in the UK, has had what must have seemed an unlikely career. As a...

Jomo Kenyatta, father of the nation? Kenya’s first president built up a myth which masked his faults

By Stephen Mutie The 22th of August is Kenyatta day in Kenya. The former president strategically used myth. That he is still remembered as the...

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