• 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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

South African feminist academic, Pumla Gqola, takes on all the whataboutisms thrown up by Jacob Zuma's defenders.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We join forces with the Italian news aggregator Afronline. That and other "Africa" references from this week.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Scorcese not only restores prints of African cinema classics, he also counts Ousmane Sembene as one of cinema's greatest directors.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Black America want better schools, better jobs, cheaper health care, lower taxes, smaller prison populations, stronger labor unions.