• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Sarah Burgess

Bombino, the Tuareg musician from Agadez in northern Niger, wants to show the world the multiple, and often joyful sides of life in the region.

• Marta Tveit

Is it a good idea to separate African urbanites from the rest of their cohort? How is that even constructive, wonders the writer of Norwegian and Tanzanian descent.

• Zachary Rosen

Jimmy Nelson's photographs are deliberately constructed to capitalize on his own vision of these groups.

• Africa Is a Country

• Arnaud Contreras

Since 1999, Contreras has documented, via documentary films, radio programs and photographs, dramatic changes to the Sahara.

• Peter Rachleff

Nokutela Dube wasn't just the wife of John Dube, one of the founders of the continent's oldest liberation movement, the African National Congress.

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, "L'Afrique Est Un Pays," as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.

• Shamira Muhammad

Valerie June admires Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Miriam Makeba and a Nigerian blues singer she once heard in her car, but can't remember their name.

• Matt Temple

The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.

• Janette Yarwood

A new film makes the case that a combination of hip-hop, new media technology, globalization and youth energy inspired Y’en a Marre.

• Jessica Blatt

There is something out there that we can identify as “really” European or “really” African, is essentially what the ancestry testing industry is selling.

• Serginho Roosblad

A Dutch TV channel created a fictive African 'tribe' for a reality TV show about 'Africa.' It employed an actual Namibian ethnic group to do the job. When will this end?

• Kieran Dodds

The Newcastle United defender, Steven Taylor, is another no-nonsense (racist) English centre-half.

• Tom Devriendt

• Netta Kornberg

Netta Kornberg watches movie trailers, so you don't have to. This edition: 'Mr. Pip,' 'Captain Phillips' and '12 Years A Slave.'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The news that a major studio is bankrolling a film about the Brazilian Pele, contender for greatest player of all time.

• Elliot Ross

• Zachary Rosen