• Marissa Moorman

Rock music has been popular in Angola since the late colonial period and forms part of a complex urban soundscape in the country.

• Tom Devriendt

A series of public portraits by the young French-Algerian artist Bilel Kaltoun honors the martyrs of Tunisia's revolution.

• Tom Devriendt

Pitchom, Batida, Vieux Farka Toure, P-Unit, Sauti Sol and Tinariwen comprise our weekly Music Break.

• Tom Devriendt

Aflam, a new Belgian "festival of Arab cinema," features seven new and recent films about Egypt in Brussels.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Nas gets caught up in a musical scandal in Angola. Not how he wanted to make a connection to the continent.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Throwback: What happened when Trevor Noah made his debut on American network TV.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.

• Orlando Reade

Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.

• Brett Davidson

Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.

• Orlando Reade

Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?

• Tom Devriendt

What is with the increasing use of sci-fi and horror elements in fairly recent music videos and films by African artists.

• Boima Tucker

The Austria-based Ghanian singer, Anbuley, shows a willingness to jump on unconventional beats.

• Boima Tucker

• Tom Devriendt
• Sean Henry Jacobs

If people still bought full albums, we would suggest them buying these 10 from 2011 for their friends. Like we will.

• Basia Cummings

• Hinda Talhaoui

The series, Paris Is a Continent, is on number 6. Songs about our moms and break-up songs sung by men that women will like, among others.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt