Art / Culture

The writer-director, author of Burma Boy, Biyi Bandélé, has passed.

Ifeakandu, in his debut, reveals the mundane and daring lives of gay men in Nigeria, conveying their everyday experiences with compassion.

A piece of intrusion fantasy, its prose carefully measured, tied to a Black woman’s hair.

I come from the country / Of the Happiest People on earth, / Where death sells at ten for one kobo / And the Living envy the peace

Part of coverage of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival.

Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te made comments at the recent National Culture Congress earlier this month that might strike as somewhat unusual.

Brian Hioe spoke to Blaine Whiteley about Earthfest, which will take place in Miaoli from July 21st through July 24th.

Jonathan Russell Clark debuts a monthly column for Tasteful Rude detailing the choicest selections from his book-obsessed life.

In Nigerian popular culture, ‘double wahala’ is a Pidgin English phrase that was made popular by ace Afrobeat musician and activist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

雨の音 (rain sound) is a compact EP, but it manages to take listeners on a unique aural journey.

If we think of film as “visual storytelling”, Blood Sisters certainly gives us the “visual” even if it sometimes leaves us wondering about the “storytelling.”

In the traditions that established earlier voices in modern Africa poetry, sociopolitical maladies have remained an arch theme. In the words of Omafune Onoge, what rocks African poetry most is the crisis of consciousness.

A Review of Dance Music Spaces