Africultures


Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas. Based in Paris, it was founded in 1997 by journalists and academics such as Gérald Arnaud, Olivier Barlet, Tanella Boni, Sylvie Chalaye, Fayçal Chehat, Soeuf Elbadawi, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, etc. The magazine is managed by the association Africultures and it is published by L'Harmattan. Since 2012 the documentation produced by the magazine and its database made of over 80,000 biographies of artists and description of books, music, films and institutions has been released under the open Creative Commons attribution share alike license. It has become one of the leading portals for information on African topics on the Internet.

Activities

Every issue of the magazine Africultures is devoted to a specific topic. It includes news and reviews of events, books, music, films, theatre and dance. The session "diaspos" is focused on African migrations.
Africultures maintains an online archive of artists, films, music, books and institutions based in or working in Africa and the Caribbean. The multilingual archive released with the Creative Commons attribution share alike license is on the Africultures website and on SPLA Sud Planète, a joint multilingual collaboration among international partners. SPLA Sud Planète has produced national portals of cultural information for Burkina Faso, Mali and Cameroon.

Books

Africultures also publishes books.