• Allison Swank

The "Tarzan" films, which dates back to the beginnings of Hollywood, are a perfect visual representation of colonialism in Africa.

• Sonja Sugira

Chris Abani's musings on telling African stories gets at just about everything Sonja thinks about as she encounters "Africa" every day, and then attempt to write about it.

• Sonja Sugira

The first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

When white South Africans do ordinary things, like travel to a black neighborhood, they're showered with platitudes. This is not reserved for their black country fellows.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For the next month we'll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There'll be lots of "African" themes.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Recommended: a short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving market in Lagos, Nigeria.

• Allison Swank

Over the next few months, Allison Swank will commence a new weekly series on popular (and not-so-popular) films in the United States 'about' Africa.

• Sonja Sugira

In the music video for her latest single, "Rockstar 101," singer Rihanna appears in what looks like blackface.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

One of the first authoritative, comprehensive reference work covering South Africa’s history, politics, law, society and culture, economy, environment - in one place.

• Sonja Sugira

Should our contributor Sonja Sugira, usually a harsh critic of humanitarianism, cut Bono's RED campaign some slack?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Has Bono made what is the best TV (you can also watch it on Youtube) commercial in the history of the World Cup?

• Herman Wasserman

The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee's novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, 'Disgrace.'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Is this playful ode to coloured identity in South Africa the unofficial 2010 World Cup anthem for the locals?

• Herman Wasserman

The UK Observer, despite its best attempts, does not have its finger on the pulse of the South African literary scene. The World Cup didn't help.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.

• Herman Wasserman

Bok van Blerk's new music video mines familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country saved by a blonde heroine and her white male companion.

• Sonja Sugira

A brand of football trickery and showmanship have only reaped bad results on the field for South African teams, but is also a great dance.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There's a lot of hype around Didier Drogba, including that he stopped a civil war in Cote d'Ivoire. How much truth is there to that story?

• Africa Is a Country

• Sonja Sugira

Hugh Masekela and his son, Sal, together explore the people, culture, landscapes and history of South Africa.