• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Allison Swank

A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Kathryn Mathers

When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture' any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.

• Tom Devriendt

Peter Muhumuza Tuke's film "Kengere" - using puppets - tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda's civil war.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.

• Africa Is a Country

An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.

• Anni Lyngskaer

An interview with the Danish photographer Kim Thue about his work in Sierra Leone's capital.

• Allison Swank

A French filmmaker witnesses a "the turning of the dead people" ceremony in Madagascar. Amazingly, the film explores this event without necessarily exoticizing it.

• Boima Tucker

The connections and shared lineage between Africa and the countries of the Arabian peninsula.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt