• Muti Phoya

Rose Chilambo was a prominent leader in the fight against British colonialism and the first woman cabinet minister in independent Malawi.

• Samuel Osaze

Atiku's street performances - biting critiques of Nigeria's ruling class - encourages participation. Which is often too much for the local ruling class.

• Benjamin Lebrave

We talk to Togolese rapper Elom 20ce who aims to bring his politics to the masses.

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

Ghana has a housing crisis and Accra is increasingly marginalizing those who are far from able to get a piece of the real estate pie.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

It's the end of the year, so Hipsters Dont Dance made a "Top World Carnival Collabs" of 2015.

• Christopher J. Lee

Frantz Fanon remains vital not only for his bracing anti-racism and anti-colonialism, but equally for the less-recognized, empathetic politics of solidarity he cultivated and exemplified.

• Africa Is a Country

A small corrective to the tide of Big Media book lists that champion a small and predictable group of authors who together give at best a limited Eurocentric view of our world.

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

For rapper, Art Melody, hip hop is a philosophy, one that can’t be sold out for fame, money, or even politics.

• Grieve Chelwa

The first Zambian woman to be a Rhodes Scholar, lawyer Lucy Sichone returned home to represent people whose rights were trampled on.

• Boima Tucker

• Leo Zeilig

• Boima Tucker

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Lesotho writers and creators' growing awareness that they are part of a global society and just trying to claim their place as agents in this world that they live in.

• Liz Timbs

Visualizing the 1760-1761 Slave Revolt in Jamaica, the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.

• Christine Hogg

An interview with Cape Town-based anarchist hip hop collective, Soundz of the South (or SOS).

• Adam Branch

Revisiting the Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal book, "Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism."

• Adriano Mixinge

• Ron Krabill

To make sense of Bill Cosby’s fall from grace requires distinguishing questions of legacy from questions of individual reputation.

• Sarah Van Beurden

'Beauté Congo' wonderfully represents Congolese contemporary art, yet fails to completely evade European colonial baggage.