• Zayaan Jappie

Cape Town rapper YoungstaCPT complicates hip hop and coloured identity in South Africa.

• Zachary Rosen

The photo series Another Way Home captures how migration effects families, communities and individuals—those who travel and those who stay behind.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

Rapper Jovi has inducted himself into a club of Cameroonian artists who have embraced their own truths in the face of adversity.

• William Shoki

The emphasis on identity and difference act to temper the radical potential of South Africa's youth. They need an education on class politics.

• R. Joseph Parrott

The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique. They also offer a new generation blueprints on revolution and solidarity.

• Max Nelson

The legendary Senegalese director (Touki-Bouki and Hyenas) said of his films: “My work is not based on premeditation or planning; it is based on the instant."

• Olaoluwa Oni

Everyday Lagos and Lagosians fill the pages of Leye Adenle's thrillers, but fail to fill some holes in the plots.

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

The new comedy 'Matwetwe' hits all the right chords to tell a story about the current place and time of South African youth.

• John Stephens

News of a potential cure for HIV shouldn't lead us to complacency. There are 37m people in the world with HIV, nearly half who can't access treatment.

• Marame Gueye

Religious authorities in Senegal are organizing protests against a popular TV series. The outrage could be related to the challenges the series provokes of the "proper" place of women in society.

• Melissa Levin
• Andrea Meeson

A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.

• Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
• Maria Dyveke Styve
• Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

The authors of an upcoming edited book to revisit Samr Amir's legacy in economics, write about what they wanted to achieve.

• Maja van der Velden
• Martin Oteng-Ababio

The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."

• Nabil Ayouch
• Theo Zenou
• Joseph Pomp

A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.

• Hisham Aidi

Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.

• Endre Dalen

Once we're done talking about its viral quality, is Toto's "Africa" a song about the continent with the same name, or a song about how millions of enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?

• Africa is a Country

Drawing on a long history of political art and protest and to bypass old media censorship, Sudani artists go to the street and online to complement street protests.

• Sydelle Willow Smith

Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.

• Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

How could thinking with Africa help us fulfill our humanity? And might thinking with Africa open up a possibility for world-making?

• Nikitta Dede Adjirakor

When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.