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Duma wearing all black and COVID masks
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Duma show that the future of metal is in eastern Africa

by Noah Berlatsky March 17, 2022March 15, 2022

Africa’s metal scene has been quiet compared to its counterparts on other continents. Duma rectify that, and loudly. Vocalist Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) and guitarist and producer Sam Karugu hail from Kenya, and they relocated to Uganda to release their self-titled 2020 debut album on Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Tapes. That label is known […]

Posted inMusic

A slice of sunshiny soukous for spring

by Philip Montoro April 19, 2021August 18, 2021

Revisiting an old favorite by Sam Mangwana’s 80s band Tiers Monde Cooperation

Posted inMusic

J.S. Ondara creates Americana imbued with the heartache of the immigrant experience

by Catalina Maria Johnson October 17, 2019August 18, 2021

The first time Kenyan singer-songwriter J.S. Ondara heard the music of Bob Dylan, he was blown away. As a bow-tie-wearing, poetry-writing teenager, Ondara often felt out of place among his peers, but listening to America’s most famous folk troubadour inspired him to set his own verses to music. In 2013, at age 20, Ondara won […]

Posted inBlogs

Urgent Jumping! collects east African dance classics—including the frantic benga of the Golden Kings Band

by Peter Margasak May 2, 2017August 18, 2021

The compilation Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics showcases the proliferating dance styles of Kenya and Tanzania in the 1970s.

Posted inArts & Culture

What it’s like to live in the world’s largest refugee camp

by Rayyan Al-Shawaf February 9, 2016August 18, 2021

Ben Rawlence’s new book is an enlightening account of Dadaab, a territory rarely covered by the mainstream press.

Posted inBlogs

A journalist’s moment of truth in a Nairobi slum

by Michael Miner June 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Debra Pickett writes a novel about a reporter who abandons her story

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Posted inFilm

Chicago French Film Festival: Naturalist dramas and formalist filmmaking

by Chicago Reader July 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Select reviews of screenings at this year’s Chicago French Film Festival, hosted by the Music Box Theatre.

Posted inBlogs

There’s a time and a place for everything, including an informed public

by Michael Miner June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

In due time, a democratic government can be held accountable.

Paradise: Love
Posted inFilm

Paradise: Love: Beach boys, white women, and the deep blue sea

by Ben Sachs May 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Ulrich Seidl’s career-topping “Paradise” trilogy screens at Gene Siskel Film Center.

Luc Ferrari
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey on vintage dead-stock vinyl from Kenya

by Peter Margasak March 8, 2013August 19, 2021

Current musical obsessions of John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey and filmmaker Brian Ashby

Posted inBlogs

Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: The “30-Second Auteur” takes to the high seas in Asad

by Drew Hunt February 6, 2013August 18, 2021

Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Asad

Posted inBlogs

2016: Obama’s America: an exegesis

by Sam Worley October 19, 2012August 19, 2021

I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s crappy movie so you don’t have to

Abana Ba Nasery
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Prog-rock guru Charles Snider on Conrad Schnitzler and District 97

by Philip Montoro August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Abana Ba Nasery, and Ga’an drummer Seth Sher on Absu, Razor, and Alphonse Mouzon

Posted inBlogs

African Women and Science Fiction

by Ed M. Koziarski July 29, 2010August 19, 2021

Wanuri Kahiu’s post-apocalyptic short “Pumzi” screens and YA novelist Nnedi Okorafor reads and speaks in the African Woman and Science Fiction program Sunday at the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Posted inBlogs

From a Whisper

by Ed M. Koziarski July 18, 2010August 19, 2021

Wanuri Kahiu’s 2008 drama “From a Whisper,” about life ten years later for those left behind by the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, screens today at 2 p.m. at the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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