Arts & Books

As global population growth and the commoditisation of land begin to stretch the seams of the planet’s resources, we may well ask ourselves: Who takes the punches? It is the poor, the young and poor, and the female and poor.

Hubert Harrison emerged in the first two decades of the twentieth century as one of the leading voices of Harlem radicals rejecting American claims to an egalitarian democratic heritage and commitment to such a future based on the undeniable persistence of massive racial and class inequalities.

CHINUA ACHEBE CENTER AT BARD COLLEGE AND CHIMURENGA LAUNCH “PILGRIMAGES” PROJECT TO SEND 14 WRITERS TO 14 CITIES ACROSS AFRICA

This book is something rather unusual, the biography of a house. Not some aristocratic family’s great residence. An ordinary house, a modern house, but worth ‘listening to’ because of the remarkable people who lived and worked in it.

In its 19th and reportedly best-attended year yet, Liverpool’s 2010 Africa Oyé festival last weekend saw thousands descend upon the city’s Sefton Park to enjoy an eclectic selection of accomplished musicians from across the pan-African world.