• Sisonke Msimang

Reading three contemporary South African women authors: Lindiwe Hani, Pumla Gqola and Redi Tlhabi.

• Wangui Kimari

What characterizes daily life in Kenya: a seemingly simultaneous flagrant zest for life and hesitant fascination with death.

• Corinna Jentzsch

The dominant approach to revitalizing national parks is one-dimensional and sees local residents as obstacles rather than partners.

• Savo Heleta

For those not familiar with academic publishing, prominent peer-reviewed journals are not expected to publish garbage promoting colonialism.

• Noah Tsika

Nigerian filmmakers are embracing the short form as more than just a cinematic calling card.

• Daylin Paul

• Greg Scruggs

The depressing new norm for one of the most vibrant grassroots, immigrant cultural traditions in New York City.

• Boima Tucker

• Liz Timbs

Anthropologist Johnny Miller's aerial photographs chronicles geographic stratifications in South Africa and beyond.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

An edited version of this post appeared in the South African newspaper, City Press, as part of "Thought We Had Something Going," an e-anthology exploring post-1994 experiences.

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

In his life and books, Alex La Guma struggled for a society in which all people could find their humanity, argues his friend Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

• Michael Mutyaba

A group of young Ugandans employ poetry and storytelling to speak out against state repression, corruption and abuse of power.

• Natalia Linares
• Francisco Perez

The hit song and its production reflect everything that is wrong with the music industry and how it exploits the cultural production of communities of color.

• Keren Weitzberg

Jeffrey Gettleman was until recently the East Africa correspondent for The New York Times. He left Africans a memoir, 'Love, Africa.'

• Gwen Ansell

When Cape Jazz found a perfect mix with R&B, fusion and pop.

• Haythem Guesmi

The number of African migrants who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean is a tragedy, shamefully under-analyzed over the past 20 years.

• Erin MacLeod

The story of the Rastafari community who moved to their promised land of Ethiopia on land granted by Haile Selassie in the late 1950s as thanks for diaspora's support during the Italian occupation.

• Anakwa Dwamena

A Nigerian immigrant to the Bronx, New York, Osaretin Ugiagbe documents the lives of his friends and strangers on the streets.

• Robina Marks

A black woman, born in Cape Town, returns to the city to buy a house where she will hopefully retire.

• Noah Tsika

 The American network VICE turns to Nigeria and its film industry as a further source of wonder for its mostly white correspondents.