crafting Rwanda’s creative future +250 is more than a project. It’s a movement. Born out of a collaboration between Cornwine, a Kigali-based creative agency, and Pan African Music (PAM), +250 is the cultural banner for […]

Waists thrust at everything, pounding, shaking, and sending up billowing clouds of dust. Far from the city, particles fly in every chaotic direction as hands and feet beat at the earth. At the Balani Show, […]

For ACCES 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda, PAM will be presenting its Rap in Kigali project with a photo exhibition, panel discussion, and live music showcase.

Enter the Central Prison of Douala and meet Jail Time Records, a label for current and former detainees that reimagines the stigma around incarceration.

Our latest episode in the Off the Map documentary series directed by Dione Roach plunges you into the life of Steve Happi, co-founder of Jail Time Records, a label born in Douala’s central prison that gives inmates a new lease on life.

This is a story of explosive creativity, diehard cultural exchange, and avant-garde community from Kampala to Hamburg, with Nyege Nyege and Afropollination.

In Ivory Coast, plastic sandals known as “lêkê” have become emblems of popular culture worn by everyone from DJ Arafat to Eritrean freedom fighters.