The Kenyan Finns
What would happen if you made a film about a key figure in Finnish history and cast Kenyan actors in the lead roles?
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Mikko Kapanen
Mikko Kapanen is a Finnish radio producer, writer and photographer.
Family Matters
Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
The geo-branding war
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide
Are ‘African jokes’ played out?
Who (can) make “African jokes”, are they funny or do they go too far?
The Nordic Connection
Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.
The New South African Superstar
Zahara has become the top pop artist in South Africa in a fairly short time but curiously enough, for the media, she has remained something of an enigma because she doesn’t appear to have any obvious unique selling points beside her talent.
Africa and contemporary art
I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term
The news about land reform in Zimbabwe
Land reform and Zimbabwe; say those words in any order and you get a reaction. It