• Emily Wood

What's the story with The Very Best's video for the single "Kondaine," where they teamed up with an American NGO and shot it in very rural Kenya.

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

• Basia Cummings

'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.

• Jonathan Duncan

Writing on depression in Africa is a rarity, so Binyavanga Wainaina's book, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," seems singular.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.

• Tom Devriendt

• Emily Wood

Matheka, through his photographs, aims to instil in Kenyans, and eventually all Africans, pride in their cities and pride in their place within them.

• Olufemi Terry

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

• Loren A Lynch

Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.

• Emily Wood

This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.

• Bukola Afolayan

Plays, operas, children's events, participatory performances by audiences, and even some “open society” speeches lit up the Tunisian capital in defiance of religious extremists.

• Orlando Reade

• Boima Tucker

What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.

• Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann

For our series, "My favorite photographs," we asked Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann about her favorites.

• Laurent Dubois

Didier Drogba is the master of the unruly and the absurd: when he is in form, none of what the other team does matters.

• Orlando Reade