Calvert 22 to host the launch of Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War
Journey to the sun: true-life photos from Africa’s almost-real first space mission
Introduction to Red Africa: when international socialism met the developing world
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 and ideology: the history of Soviet relations with Africa, told in pictures
Black in the USSR: the children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity
Adventures of an Afro-Gypsy: how to make hip-hop by way of Africa, America and Transylvania
The Mixtape 28: The sound of independence-era Africa
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
Building blocs: how Ghana’s architecture was reimagined with a little help from communist Europe
Screen dreams: Angola’s modernist cinemas and the fading of a utopian vision for Africa
Red Africa launches tonight at Calvert 22
