What is "africultures"

Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas, founded in 1996 and based in France, in Les Pilles and Paris. The magazine is managed by the association Africultures and it is published by L'Harmattan. Since 2012 all the documentation produced by the magazine and all its database made of over 80,000 biographies of artists and description of books, music, films and institutions is 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.