• Mikko Kapanen

Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?

• Tom Devriendt

• Basia Cummings

Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

Kunene’s compositions don’t necessarily have a benchmark to conform to, but instead reveal the continuous state of transcendence his music takes.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tanya Bindra

Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.

• Evelyn Owen

Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.

• Ryan Brown

Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.

• Megan Eardley

A part of Harlem's ballroom scene gets a makeover and a much needed funding injection and international exposure.

• Olufemi Terry

The songs that savor the writer Olufemi Terry's travels through the islands of Cape Verde.

• Orlando Reade

Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.

• Tom Devriendt

• Alice de Vries

White Euro-Americans are drawn to Sub Saharan Africa by an urge to explore, do good or by a more existential desire for an encounter with radical difference.

• Emily Wood

Artists wanted to comment on the political struggles and religious undercurrents roughing up Tunisian society. Religious zealots, backed by the state, shut them down.

• Brett Davidson

As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.

• Tom Devriendt

• Orlando Reade

This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.

• 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.