• Sean Henry Jacobs

The result may be a foregone conclusion, but it hasn't stop young Sudanese, via the Girifna Movement, working to get the vote out using music.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A white man dressed like Mobuto with two black "assistants" in tow, throw around fake money in Basel. What's this about?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Sorious Samura joined African migrants trying to make it to Europe for menial jobs and loneliness.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Madlib's "Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa" is about African liberation in the 1970s, especially south of the Limpopo.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Nicholas Kristof's journalism, which is largely focused on Africans, is exhausting to watch. And it is always about himself.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Ghanaian-Russian photographer documents the African diaspora in Europe, mostly in the United Kingdom.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Zeal Onyia was a master Nigerian trumpet player from the 1950s treated as an equal by Louis Armstrong.

• Caitlin L Chandler

Is the New York Times' correspondent in East Africa, a journalist or just someone relaying stereotypes?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The revival of Ethiopian jazz, a tradition that dates back to the 1920s, and had its heyday under Emperor Haile Selassie.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Parts of Johannesburg's inner city has been subjected to aggressive gentrification. It also comes with lots of mindless media.

• Pablo Mediavilla Costa

Why does a progressive Spanish TV channel close to the ruling Socialist government exploit Africans for entertainment?

• Rustum Kozain

Die Antwoord is basically blackface. But blackface is also tricky, argues poet and writer Rustum Kozain.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Senegalese-American crooner's uninspiring "Oh Africa" reminds of bubblegum South African pop from the 1980s.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The top tunes dedicated to Nelson Mandela, arguably the most recognizable liberation figure from South Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Wiley, known for painting black men as figures from Renaissance art, now does the same with Africa's best football talents.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How a political song about the aftermath of the Cold War, refugees and statelessness was defanged, first for FIFA and then for Coca Cola.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times' chief theater critic, surprise, misses the point about the musical, "Fela!"

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Janka Nabay is the premier exponent of Sierra Leone's frantic and frenetic Bubu Music.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The nonsense that foreign journalists, who don't understand Afrikaans or the language's creole cultural history, write about Die Antwood.