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- Music, Music Review Sep 8, 2020
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Malian guitarist Sidi Touré dials it back on an all-acoustic, digital-only album
- Music, Music Review Aug 31, 2020
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The personal and spiritual growth doesn’t stop in Burna Boy’s Twice as Tall
- Music, Music Review Jun 12, 2020
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Quin Kirchner merges eclectic sounds into transcendent jazz on The Shadows and the Light
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 3, 2019
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Zamrock legends W.I.T.C.H. make their U.S. debut
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 2, 2019
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Finding peace and security after asylum
Therapists and social workers trained in trauma care are helping asylum seekers along their legal and healing journey.
- City Life, Shop Local Jan 29, 2019
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One-stop Senegalese shop
Come for the colorful textiles and raw black soap at Gorée Shop, stay for the food.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 27, 2018
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I Am Not a Witch signals the auspicious arrival of a fierce new talent, director Rungano Nyoni
A Zambian girl, falsely accused and imprisoned, refuses to be objectified or underestimated.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2018
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People of Culture will be taking over the DuSable Museum this weekend
A celebration of African culture will be happening at the DuSable Museum.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2018
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Five must-see African films
Five African film classics for this Black Panther moment.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2017
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Veteran Kenyan-Congolese band Orchestre les Mangelepa enter their fifth decade
With the new album Last Band Standing, Orchestre les Mangelepa position themselves for long-overdue global acclaim.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2017
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph brings his futbol-themed ‘freedom suite’ to the MCA
Inspired by a trip to Africa prior to the 2010 World Cup, /peh-LO-tah/ explores the global and personal impact of soccer.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2017
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Terminal cancer—and the band Toto—is bringing my family together for my parents’ last date
A Toto show in the Chicago suburbs has become my dad's "wake before he sleeps," now that he's been diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 2, 2017
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Block Museum kicks off a season of urgent art with Kader Attia’s ‘Reflecting Memory’
The French-Algerian artist explores loss through repair.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2016
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Report: President Barack Obama is planning to say farewell at McCormick Place, and other Chicago news
Also, who knew that being the city's "harbor boss" was such a challenging gig?
- Music, Music Feature Sep 8, 2016
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The best of the 2016 World Music Festival
The brightest gems in this year’s treasure trove include Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, electro-rumba innovators Ìfé, and forward-looking Indian classicists Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan—and every show is free.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 9, 2014
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A Brigadoon for modern times
The Goodman Theatre's 21st-century revival retrieves a postwar classic from the misty past.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jul 9, 2014
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An African-Latino showcase gives us history by way of cha-cha-cha
Columbia College inaugurates a new dance program with four days of cross-pollinated performances.
- Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2014
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David Brooks: Kidnapped schoolgirls aside, Africa's doing great!
This isn't the best time to interest us in a progress report on Africa.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 20, 2014
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Noise in the Waters ain't Club Med
Marco Martinelli's monologue tells the story of Africans who lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2012
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More Sounds from Sofrito
British DJ crew Sofrito serves up another killer comp of Caribbean, South American, and African grooves
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 7, 2012
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Talking while Africa burns
Danai Gurira's The Convert leaves us praying for something more than debate
- Film, Artist on Artist Apr 28, 2011
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Femi Kuti Reconfronts the "Attitude of Lagos" with Chicago Afrobeat Project's Kevin Ford
"What kind of system of government is that, when it is broken down before it started?"
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2010
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Tapestries of Hope
"Tapestries of Hope," a documentary about human rights activists combating Zimbabwe's devastating "virgin myth," screens Tuesday at Landmark Century Centre and the Lake Theater.
- Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2010
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5/22 — Free International Awareness Festival at D'Estee Inc.
On Sat 5/22 from 2 to 5 PM, the Chicago alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta hosts a free International Awareness Festival at D'Estee Inc.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2010
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Our Trip to Africa
Peter Kubelka's 1966 scrambled document of an African hunting trip, "Unsere Afrikareise," screens Monday 3/15 in the Landscape Films program at the School of the Art Institute
