Issa Hayatou: MVP?

• Mary Serumaga

Is the Confederation of African Football's president advancing the continent's football or entangling it in geopolitics that could backfire and have lasting consequences?

I’ve always been a writer

• Taylor Steele

Spoken word artist Taylor Steele, one of the participating artists of the New York based series, 'Afropolitan presents' - that takes place at Meridian23 at the end of June 2015 - talks about her craft.

Setting Liberia’s political pot onto a full boil

• Brooks Marmon

Takun J stirs the Liberian streets with calls for justice and accountability.

Stream Africa is a Country’s live concert partnership with Coffebeans Routes, this Thursday

• Africa Is a Country

Let Kenyan planes fly

• Nikita Bernardi

The writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.

Gazing at a distance

• Elsa Guily

Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western gaze, the other perpetuating it.

Wasila Tasi’u is fifteen years old and out of prison

• Dan Moshenberg

Vamba Sherif’s ‘Bound to Secrecy’ is masterful storytelling

• Wayétu Moore

Taking white privilege abroad

• Jonathan Paul Katz

“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.

Weekend Music Break No.78

• Boima Tucker

The stranger among you

• Grant Farred

How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?

Blood dripping from his head

• Azu Yeché

A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.