Hillywood

• Tom Devriendt

Music Break / DJ Hamma and Jitsvinger

• Tom Devriendt

Drones in Somalia

• Alex Thurston

The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.

White Wedding

• Sean Henry Jacobs

'The last photo before leaving'

• Tom Devriendt

What about the maid?

• Dan Moshenberg

African women work as domestics over the world. How have they responded to or organized to improve their conditions?

Music Break / Baaba Maal and Duggy Tee

• Boima Tucker

The Redemption of General Butt-Naked

• Boima Tucker

A film about former Liberian child soldier, Joshua Milton Blahyi, adds to his celebrity and his reputation as a skilled manipulator.

Corner Shops and Arcade Games

• Dylan Valley

In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.

The Mobile Phone Chimera

• Brett Davidson

Two recent articles highlight the fact that the digital divide is very much still with us, and in fact new kinds of divides may be opening up.

The Black Maroons of Colombia

• Caitlin R. Ringwood

The spontaneous mobilization of Afro-Colombians against mining corporations (backed by the Colombian state) is something to pay attention to.

Liberian identity for a new generation

• Boima Tucker

Young people in Monrovia create a new music genre. Junior Freeman is at the heart of this musical revolution.

Lady Gaga lives in Lagos

• Loren A Lynch

Goldie’s allusions to madness typify a common theme present in the music of many of today’s successful female artists.

The ‘African chambermaid’ and the media

• Dan Moshenberg

Nafissatou Diall’s rape accusation against Strauss-Kahn plays out in front of wider struggles by African women to secure justice and well-being.

A nice saxophone solo

• Loren A Lynch

Pop culture is often at its best when it accurately reflects reality, so it’s no surprise that our music, like our history, is repeating itself.

Pretty in Pink

• Sean Henry Jacobs

One in ten young people on Cape Town’s Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career – and sometime their lives – is prom, known as the matric ball.

Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa’s second city, Cape Town.

The Rwandan Glass Ceiling

• Dan Moshenberg

When does being a Rwandan woman matter? When that woman is a killer, a rapist, a torturer, a `monster.’ Not when she is an organizer and a healer.

Africa is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Independence Day: June 27th, Djibouti

• Tom Devriendt