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Special projects Soviet Union Art & Culture Art

Red Africa

Exploring the legacy of international socialist relations with Africa in art, film, architecture and music.

Red Africa: Introduction

Journey to the sun: True-life photos from Africa's almost-real first space mission

Waiting for Tito: Unofficial scenes from a presidential tour of Africa

The Pyongyang connection: North Korea's strange and surprisingly effective charm offensive in Africa

Art, image, ideology: The history of Soviet relations with Africa, as told in pictures

Screen dreams: Angola’s modernist cinemas and the fading of a utopian vision for Africa

Adventures of an Afro-Gypsy: How to make hip-hop by way of Africa, America and Transylvania

Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity

The Mixtape 28: The sound of independence-era Africa

Building blocs: How Ghana’s architecture was reimagined with a little help from communist Europe

Revolution 2.0: Why the Cold War still matters for Burkina Faso’s contemporary artists

History man: Making sense of race in Russia via the extraordinary life of Pushkin's black forebear

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