Resources

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  The novel that answered empire back; read it before Nigeria.

• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah

  A Swahili-coast coming-of-age from the Nobel laureate of Zanzibar.

• So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

  A Senegalese classic, written as one woman’s letter to another.

Full collection coming soon

• Touki Bouki (1973)

  Djibril Diop Mambéty’s road movie through post-colonial Senegal.

• Timbuktu (2014)

  Abderrahmane Sissako’s quiet, devastating portrait of a city under siege.

• Atlantics (2019)

  Dakar, the ocean, and the ghosts of migration in Mati Diop’s debut.

Full collection coming soon

• Anansi the Spider

  The trickster of West African storytelling; every tale a small lesson in wit.

• The Hare and the Hyena

  East African fireside stories where the small outsmart the strong.

Full collection coming soon

• “If you want to go fast, go alone…”

  …if you want to go far, go together: the proverb this site is built on.

• “Wisdom is like a baobab tree”

  No one person can embrace it alone. Akan proverb, Ghana.

• “However long the night…”

  …the dawn will break. A promise heard across the continent.

Full collection coming soon

• Taarab, Zanzibar

  Swahili sung poetry: oud, violins, and longing in equal measure.

• Highlife palm-wine guitar

  Ghana and Nigeria’s gentle, finger-picked soundtrack of the coast.

Full collection coming soon

• Roads & Routes: Golden Hour

  For watching the sun go down somewhere new: the current thread in sound.

• Night Bus, West Africa

  Mbalax, afrobeat, and desert blues for long, beautiful distances.

• Market Day

  Bright, percussive, joyful: the sound of a Saturday well spent.

Full collection coming soon