The visibility of contemporary African women artists

• Grace Benton

Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki: “If we don’t stand up for ourselves, no one else is going to do it.”

The story of a lost white boy

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Herman Wasserman

The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa’s rainbow shibboleths.

Africa in a way that hasn’t been seen before

• Roxsanne Dyssell

For our series interviewing the new generation of African creatives, we sent questions to designer. Olalekan Jeyifous. We asked him for his five favorite designs.

Can African Heads of State speak

• Elliot Ross

Why when African leaders meet Barack Obama, they are received in groups (unlike all other heads of state) and rarely get to speak?

Afrique 3.0, Version 2.0

• Gregory Mann

The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: “Afrique 3.0.” We had a closer look. Is it any good?

The Steve Biko Party

• Serginho Roosblad

What has Steve Bantu Biko got to do with partying and spring in the Netherlands?

I Sing the Desert Electric

• Tom Devriendt

A short film of electronic based music across the Sahel region: Mauritania to Northern Nigeria and in-between.

Now or never

• Tom Devriendt

Apart from a heavy Senegalese presence, this Music Break, No.37, includes some other favorites of this site: Petite Noire, Laura Mvula, Rachid Taha and newcomer, Napoleon Da Legend.

The TEN CITIES Project: Club Culture and Dance Music

• Simone Bertuzzi

Makerena on Marikana

• Zachary Rosen

A conversation with South African artist Masello Motana on pop stars, politicians and personhood.

Whose Commemoration

• Chandra Frank

The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.

Egyptian Graffiti and Gender Politics

• Orlando Reade

An interview with Soraya Morayef, who is documenting the graffiti scene in Cairo, Beirut, Libya and Palestine.

5 New Films to Watch, N°21

• Tom Devriendt

Egyptian women won’t be blamed for sexual assaults

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

Also, dispelling the myth that all Arab men systematically oppress and victimize Arab women.

Tsofa: A documentary film about Congolese immigrants in Romania

• Tom Devriendt

Zimbabwe’s Tortured Rule of Law

• Dan Moshenberg

The ‘digital music in Africa’ bandwagon

• Benjamin Lebrave

What The New York Times forgot to tell you about the explosion of digital music in Africa.

Oy & The Art of Translating Between The Stage and The Studio

• Boima Tucker

The Dutch Media Drama

• Martijn Kleppe

Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a “problem”?

Africa 3.0

• Tom Devriendt