• Boima Tucker

A film about former Liberian child soldier, Joshua Milton Blahyi, adds to his celebrity and his reputation as a skilled manipulator.

• Dylan Valley

In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.

• Boima Tucker

Young people in Monrovia create a new music genre. Junior Freeman is at the heart of this musical revolution.

• Loren A Lynch

Goldie’s allusions to madness typify a common theme present in the music of many of today’s successful female artists.

• Loren A Lynch

Pop culture is often at its best when it accurately reflects reality, so it’s no surprise that our music, like our history, is repeating itself.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

"As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out."

• Tom Devriendt

Celebrate a country's independence day by featuring some of the music of its young people. This is Madagascar's turn today, June 26th.

• Tom Devriendt

In celebrating Mozambican independence day, we made a list of the most popular music videos in mid-2011.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Hip hop is usually associated with revolution and counter culture. But American artists, who visit the content, usually side with power. Like Jadakiss did in Swaziland

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Soviet cinema had a major impact on the narratives, styles, and tone of African filmmakers.